100 CAPE EACE TO CREW POINT. 



belfry near it, shows conspicuously. The 5-fathom line of soundings 

 is ^s mile to the northward of Roche point. 



Virgin point, the northeastern point of Little Placentia penin- 

 sula and the turning point into the harbor, has shoal water extend- 

 ing 200 yards to the eastward. 



Little Placentia harbor, on the southeastern side of the penin- 

 sula, extends about southwest by west 1-^^ miles, with a width of 

 1,400 yards at its entrance, decreasing to 300 yards at its head. A 

 shoal stretches southward 600 yards from the northern side of the 

 harbor at 800 yards within the entrance. 



Anchorag'e. — There is anchorage in Sandy cove, at the head of 

 the harbor, in 12 fathoms water, mud bottom; and off Cooper cove, 

 which lies westward of the shoal on the northern side of the harbor, 

 in the same depth. See preceding paragraph. 



Directions. — To enter Little Placentia harbor, keep White point, 

 on the north side of Placentia sound, just open of Isaac point, bear- 

 ing 124°, until Black head, the southeastern extreme of Little Placen- 

 tia peninsula, is just open of Lowroom point, its eastern extreme, 

 bearing 215°, when alter coijrse to 195°, keeping Long harbor head 

 open northwestward of Isaac point, bearing 16°, until Shalloway 

 point is just shut in Avith the bluff on Marquise, bearing 232". This 

 range leads up the harbor, and to the anchorage either in Cooper cove, 

 with the Avestern house bearing northward of 279°, or in Sandy cove 

 on the range. 



Ice. — Little Placentia harbor, from Sanely cove to Cairn head, 

 sometimes freezes early in February, but only in severe winters, which 

 occur about every six to eight years, and the ice breaks up about 

 April 1 ; northern ice generally arrives in March and remains three to 

 four weeks. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Little Placentia har- 

 bor, at 7h. 58m. ; springs rise 7 feet, neaps 4^ feet. 



Placentia sound stretches, with one bend, east-southeastward 

 nearly 3 miles. 



Isaac heads, two remarkable conical hills, 320 and 427 feet high, 

 form the northeastern entrance point of the sound. The shores fall 

 steeply from wooded hills, and are bold initil within ^ mile of the 

 head. Southerly to westerly winds always draw down Little Pla- 

 centia harbor, and blow Avith heaAy squalls under Isaac heads; even 

 when the Avind is light outside, boats should always reef Avith these 

 Avinds when approaching Isaac point. 



Shoals. — Tavo shoals, Avhich are the only dangers, are situated in 

 mid-channel southeastward of Isaac heads; the outer, v^dth 3 fathoms 

 Avater oAer it. bears 176° distant 1.200 yards from Isaac point; and 

 the inner occupies a space 400 yards long northeast and soutliAvest, 

 and 250 yards wide, on Avhich the least depth is 6 feet, bearing 143°. 

 'I mile, from Isaac point. 



