HOLYEOOD BAY ST. MARYS HARBOR. 91 



Ice. — Southerly and southwesterly winds fill the bay with ice, 

 but northeasterly winds clear it, driving the ice to the westward. 



Holyrood bay. — Gull island point is 4 miles northward of West- 

 ern head of St. Shots cove, and between it and cape English, 5^ miles 

 farther northward, is Holyrood bay, which, being open and exposed 

 to the sea, affords no safe anchorage. Behind the long gravel beach 

 which forms the shore of this bay is Holyrood pond, a body of fresh 

 water 11 miles long and 1 mile wide. A few fishermen reside at the 

 northwestern end of the beach. During spring, when the water rises 

 from the melting of snow, the beach is broken through, and during 

 summer the channel becomes deep enough to permit the entrance of 

 small fishing boats, but in autumn heavy seas usually close it again, 

 so that during winter the pond has no outlet. It is deep, and abounds 

 with codfish, trout, and salmon; and at the head of the pond there 

 is a good brook for trout. 



Cape English, a precipitous bluff 330 feet high, appears from the 

 southwestward like an island. 



Bank rock, bearing 352°, distant 5 miles from cape English, is 

 small, with 4 fathoms water over it. 



Greet rock, with 4| fathoms of water over it, lies near the north- 

 eastern end of a narrow bank, ly% miles in length, and running paral- 

 lel to the shore at f mile from it. From the rock Lahaye point 

 lighthouse bears 30°, distaM I^q miles. 



Clearing" marks. — Shag rock, at the southern end of Holyrood 

 bay, well open of cape English, bearing 169°, leads westward of 

 Bank rock; and Lizzy Point, in St. Marys harbor, in line with 

 Doubleroad point, bearing 55°, leads northward of it and Greet rock. 



If the clearing marks are obscured, do not approach the vicinity of 

 Bank and Greet rocks to a depth less than 40 fathoms in a ship of 

 heavy draft. 



"Woody Cove rock, with 4 fathoms of water over it, lies near the 

 northeastern extreme of the narrow bank mentioned above; from it 

 Lahaye Point lighthouse bears 29°, distant If miles. 



Laha3re point is situated 7 miles north-northeastward of English 

 cape; a stony shoal, upon which the sea breaks heavily, extends south- 

 westward 800 yards from the point. 



Light. — A circular lighthouse, 28 feet high and painted with 

 three red and three white horizontal bands, on Lahaye point, exhibits, 

 at 63 feet above high water, a fixed white light, which should be seen 

 in clear weather a distance of 9 miles. 



The red and Avhite bands are continued around a flat-roofed store 

 in rear of the lighthouse. 



St. Marys harbor. — The entrance of St. Marys harbor between 

 Lahaye point and Frapeau point, 2| miles north by west, is about 1^ 



