42 IMPROVED FISHERY HARBOUR ACCOMMODATION 



of maximum exposure, the effects of the features of 

 the locality in respect of the system of shelter, may be 

 said to commence with the Blackstone, Compass, and 

 Middle Froward Points, from whence the undulation 

 proceeds onwards, diminishing gradually, as it is broken 

 by every successive point, and expands into every succeed- 

 ing bay. 



At the bottom *or most seaward limit we have the 

 largest wave, as a matter of course, the eastern end of 

 which, striking Middle Froward Point, parts with a small 

 portion of its violence ; at Inner Froward Point it loses 

 a little more, and again at the Blackstone Rock ; but the 

 forces are partly again united behind it, leaving a portion 

 of water under its lee in a state of less comparative 

 disturbance. At Compass Point we have another break to 

 the wave, which at its eastern end curves round towards 

 the deeper indentation or bay, included between a straight 

 line drawn from Inner Froward to Kettle Points, and 

 the east coast of the Range known as Mill Bay. We 

 are now, however, at the narrows of the entrance of the 

 harbour, and begin to initiate our second principle in 

 addition to that of protection, namely, the principle 

 of expansion, which is evinced by the action of the undu- 

 lation spreading into this bay, namely, the first inside the 

 Narrows. 



Between St. Petrock's and Kettle Points is the narrowest 

 part of the channel, and from the little distance between 

 them they are, of course, more effectual in breaking the 

 force of the sea than any other features we have hitherto 

 noticed ; and behind St. Petrock's, in particular, the difference 

 in the agitation of the water is very marked from its 

 prominent position, jutting out as it does at right angles 

 to the line of maximum exposure. 



