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Hagdown, is seen all across the Atlantic, but on the banks they, as 

 Avell as divers and other sea fowl, become very numerous. 



Reported shoal. — A sounding of 8 fathoms was reported in 1874 

 to have been obtained in latitude 46° 12' N., longitude 49° 35' W., 

 approximately. 



Eastern shoals, a group of banks, with depths of 7 to 30 

 fathoms over them, situated about east by south 107 miles from 

 cape Race, are the eastern shoals on the Great bank. The shoals 

 extend about 4 miles north and south, with a breadth of 2 miles ; tho^e 

 Avith depths of 13 fathoms or less break in heavy weather, and a 

 strong breeze causes a confused sea in this locality. 



Nine fathom bank, 300 yards across within the depth of 20 

 fathoms and with a least depth of 9 fathoms, is situated near the 

 middle of the Eastern shoals, in latitude 46° 26' 45" N. and longi- 

 tude 50° 28' 10" "W. 



Bogy led.g'e, the shoalest of four banks, occupying a space 1,200 

 yards long and 575 yards wide, has a depth of 12 fathoms water on 

 its shoalest part, which is situated northeast 1^ miles from Nine 

 fathom bank. 



Sannders shoal, about 300 yards across, with 11 fathoms least 

 wat^r, is situated southeast by east ^ mile from Nine fathom bank. 

 Close southwestward of Saunders shoal is a patch of 7 fathoms, 

 which is said to be the least depth on the Eastern shoals. 



Emnieline shoal, of 12 fathoms, is 2 miles north of Nine fathom 

 bank, and the Gilley shoals, of 13 and 12 fathoms, are about a mile 

 south of the bank. 



Virgin rocks is the name given to a rock}^ bank with 3 to 30 

 fathoms water over it, extending about 9 miles north and south and 

 2 miles east and west at its broadest part. On this bank is prosecuted 

 the most important hook and line fishery of the banks of New-found- 

 land. 



Main ledge, the largest of the shoaler parts of the bank, is 1,400 

 yards long and 1,100 yards wide, with depths of less than 20 fathom.s. 

 The shoalest spot, a small pinnacle rock with 3 fathoms water over 

 it, on which the sea breaks in heavy weather, is in latitude 46° 27' N., 

 longitude 50° 47' 45" W. From this pinnacle a rock, with 4 fathoms 

 Avater over it, lies 200 yards north-northwestward, and a rock, with 

 5^ fathoms water, | mile southwestward. These three rocks are small 

 shoals rising above the general depth of 8 to 10 fathoms between 

 them. 



South shoal is 1,200 yards long north-northeast and south-south- 

 west and 700 yards wide, with depths of less than 20 fathoms. The 

 least water on the shoal is 4f fathoms, rock, situated south-southeast, 

 distant l^^o niiles from Main ledge; tAvo other rocks, with 5 fathoms 

 least water, lie Avithin 300 yards northwestward from this rock. Two 



