686 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA. 



150 yards from Nameless point, the end of a peninsula about a mile 

 in length on the northern side of Nameless cove. The island is 400 

 yards long, eastward and westward, and 200 yards wide; and there 

 is a house on it. 



Light [Lat. 51 18' 26" N., Long. 56 43' 33" W.] A square 

 white lighthouse with a red lantern, 50 feet high, and a dwelling 

 attached, on the western side of Flower island, exhibits at 51 feet 

 above high water, a revolving white light, that attains its greatest 

 brilliancy every thirty seconds, and should be seen from a distance 

 of 12 miles in clear weather. 



The coast of Newfoundland between Flower island and cape Nor- 

 man, a distance of 37^ miles, is low and featureless, backed by a 

 wooded ridge about 100 feet high. There are numerous huts and 

 fishing sheds near the sea, but no marks of any kind that enable a 

 mariner to fix his position. 



Cape Norman [Lat. 51 37' 50" N., Long. 55 52' 40" W.] is bare, 

 rocky, and rises to low cliffs. On it are several huts used by the seal 

 fishers. The northwestern side of the cnpe is steep, but from close 

 southeastward of it to Whale point, which lies southeastward f mile 

 from the cape, rocky ledges extend about 400 vards offshore. 



Light [Lat. 51 37' 45" N., Long. 55 53' 00" W.]. A white 

 cylindrical iron tower, surmounted by a white cylindrical iron lantern 

 with a red roof, 57 feet high, on the summit of the cliff at about 400 

 yards westward of cape Norman, exhibits at 116 feet above high 

 water a flashing white light showing groups of 3 flashes every 30 

 seconds, thus: Flash ^ second, eclipse 5^ seconds; flash \ second, 

 eclipse 5 seconds; flash -J second, eclipse 17 seconds, which should 

 be visible from a distance of 16 miles in clear weather. 



Fog signal. A diaphone, worked by compressed air, gives blasts 

 of 5 seconds duration, with intervals of 30 seconds between them, 

 during thick or foggy weather. The fog-signal house, a square white 

 building with a red roof, is situated about 100 yards eastward of the 

 lighthouse. 



Pistolet lay [Lat. 51 34' 00" N., Long. 55 47' 00" W.]. The 

 entrance of Pistolet bay is between Black islet and Burnt cape, which 

 bear nearly east-southeastward and west-northwestward, distant 3^ 

 miles from each other, and the bay extends southward 6 miles, and 

 widens to 6^ miles at its head, exclusive of Milan arm. 



Burnt island [Lat, 51 34' 30" N., Long. 55 43' 30'/ W.] extends 

 south-southwestward 2^ miles from Burnt cape and is about 1,200 

 yards wide; it is barren, whitish in color, and 223 feet high. The 

 island is joined to the mainland by a low isthmus, 200 yards wide, 

 which separates Isthmus cove from Ha-ha bay to the northward. On 

 the western coast of the island, at about a mile from Burnt cape, is 

 a deep hole named Whale cave (le trou de la Baleine), which is con- 

 spicuous from the westward. 



Milan point lies south-southeastward about 3J miles from Isthmus 

 point, and from about 1,200 yards northward of Milan point. Trompe 

 I'ceil point, consisting of low rocks and bowlders, extends westward 

 f$ mile, and a reef continues westward about 1.600 yards from 

 Trompe I'oeil point. Micmac islet, in the entrance to Milan arm 

 nearly 800 yards west-southwestward from Milan point, is small and 

 grassy. 



