SHALLOWAY POINT ROCHE POINT. 99 



Shalloway point is a low projection faced by a sand cliff 30 

 feet high, within which are several houses ; it is the southern extreme 

 of Marquise, the shingle beach that divides Sandy cove from the sea. 



Moll rock bears 266°, distant 1,500 yards from Shalloway point, 

 and has 6 feet water over it. 



Leading mark. — Dixon point, south-southwestward of Placentia 

 town, in line with Crevecoeur point, bearing 115°, leads f mile south- 

 westward of Moll rock, and nearly 400 j^ards northeastward of Prive- 

 coeur shoal. 



The Deadman, a rock awash at low water, bears 351°, distant 1^^ 

 miles from Shalloway point. 



Little Placentia peninsula, rising 75 feet above high water, is 

 formed of gravel deposit covered with marsh and faced by sand 

 cliffs 30 to 40 feet high. These slope to a low point at the north and 

 rise again to Latine point, the northwestern point of the peninsula, 

 38 feet high, on which is a flagstaff. The peninsula is 2 miles long 

 north and south, expanding from the narrow neck of Marquise to 1^ 

 miles in width at the northern end. On this northern end is a beach 

 of shingle, 5 feet above high water, surrounding a pond, the entrance 

 to which is gradually silting up. There is no passage at low water 

 even for a boat. 



Light. — A square tower with sloping sides, 30 feet high, and 

 painted red and white in horizontal bands, on Latine point, exhibits 

 at 42 feet above high w^ater a fixed red light that should be seen in 

 clear weather a distance of 10 miles. 



Two white buildings with black roofs are situated near the light- 

 house. 



The exact position of the lighthouse is not given, but it has been 

 placed on the chart with the flagstaff on the point bearing 45°, distant 

 375 yards. 



Shoals. — Two patches of 2f and 3 fathoms water bear 8°, distant 

 600 yards and ^ mile, respectively, from Latine point, and shoal water 

 extends from the point to a depth of 3 fathoms for | mile, and to a 

 depth of 5 fathoms for f mile. White point, bearing 124° just open 

 of Isaac point, leads clear in 5^ fathoms. 



The Pond. — Close eastward of Latine point is The Pond, about 

 800 yards in length and 400 yards in breadth, with 3^ fathoms water 

 in places; there is no passage into it. 



Roche point is the extremity of a shingle spit, 9 feet high, forming 

 a basin between it and The Pond, sheltered by a bar. This basin 

 forms a shelter for the fishing fleet of the neighborhood, and is 

 entered on a course of 140°. keeping the western side of Roche 

 j)oint close aboard, and looking out for the shoal which continues 

 about 200 yards in the direction of Roche point. Houses line the 

 shore within the basin, and a Roman Catholic church, with a scaffold 



