682 GEOGRAPHICAL, DATA. 



Barred bay, between Sheep island and Flat point, affords anchor- 

 age to small craft, but the holding ground is bad. 



Beacon. There is a beacon on Flat point, the northeastern entrance 

 point of Barred bay. 



Hare island, northeastward 1,200 yards from Round Head island, 

 is 1,700 yards long in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, 

 mile wide, low and rugged; shoals extend nearly 400 yards from its 

 southwestern end. 



Passage shoals, lying 350 yards from Round Head island, and 

 between it and Hare island, are two heads, the western with a depth 

 of G feet of water, and the other, about 200 yards to the eastward, 

 with a depth of 3f fathoms. There is a deep passage both eastward 

 and westward of these shoals. 



The east coast of St. John island is foul to the distance of 1$ miles 

 from Flat point to Turret point, which is the northeastern point of 

 the island, and is so called from a circular mound near it. 



Wolf rock, at the northeastern end of these shoals, bears 81. dis- 

 tant 1,600 yards from Turret point, to which it is almost joined by 

 rocks and a bank; Wolf tail, a reef, extends east-southeast*,vard GOO 

 yards from it. 



Reculoux^ shoal bears 114, distant 2,100 yards from Wolf rock, 

 and there is a depth of 2| fathoms over it. The channel between 

 Roculoux shoal and Bayot shoal is about 900 yards wide. 



Numerous shoals, with 3 feet to 5 fathoms of water over them, lie 

 southward of Wolf rock and westward of Reculoux shoal. 



Fossil shoal, with 6 feet least water over it, stretches westward 

 nearly a mile along the coast from about 700 yards northeastward of 

 the western point of Turret bay. 



Flat island, about 1 mile westward of St. John island, is l^y miles 

 long, in a northerly and southerly direction, 3 mile wide, low, smooth, 

 and wooded on its northeastern part; rocks and shoals extend about 

 600 yards off the coasts of the southern half of the island ; the Watch- 

 man (le Guetteur), a rock above water, is on the southeastern edge 

 of these shoals. Shoal water extends mile off the northern end of 

 the island. 



Ticin islands [Lat. 50 53' 40" N., Long. 57 16' 30" W.~|, north- 

 northeastward, 2| miles from Flat island, are two islands separated 

 by a narrow channel, and together extend 1 mile in a north-north- 

 easterly and south-southwesterly direction, with a width of mile; 

 they are low, flat, and covered with grass. There is a solitary house 

 on the southern Twin island. 



Shoal. A shoal, with 4 fathoms of water over it. bears 110. distant 

 H miles from the northern end of the northern Twin island. 



" Whale islands [Lat. 50 52' 45" N., Long. 57 08' 15" W/|, north- 

 eastward about 3f^ miles from Turret point, St. John island, are 

 two islands, each about 900 yards long and 400 yards wide, low, flat, 

 and grassy, lying nearly in an easterly and westerly direction from 

 each other, the channel between being about 300 yards wide, and 

 shallow. There are several islets and reefs within a distance of 1,200 

 yards southward from them, among which boats find shelter. Dol- 

 men, the western island, has a remarkable cliff, 20 feet high at its 

 eastern end, and shoals extend southward f mile from it ; the southern 

 and southwestern sides of these islands should not be approached 

 nearer than a mile. 



