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in 11 fathoms of water, at from f mile to within 400 yards of the 

 head. Tom Power lookout, a remarkable conical hill, 562 feet high, 

 is on the northwestern slope. St. Croix point, the northwestern 

 entrance point of this bay, slopes gradually from Tom Power lookout, 

 terminating in an islet about 40 feet high, and a rock that covers 2 

 feet, close off it. 



A shoal with 12 feet of water over it lies 200 yards, and a rocky 

 patch with 3^ fathoms of water over it, lies 700 yards southward 

 from the point. 



Shag rocks are two islets in the entrance to Long harbor. The 

 western islet is a flat grass-covered ridge 39 feet high, faced by dark 

 cliffs, with a gap through it near the middle. A reef, awash at 

 high water, lies about 100 yards off the southern end of this islet. 

 The eastern islet, 60 feet high, is wooded and has a double top. 



A rock, with 1 foot water on it, lies 140 yards from the western 

 end of these islets; a patch of 3| fathoms lies north-northeastward 

 about 600 yards, and a rock, on Avhich the depth is 6 feet, bears 59° 

 distant 400 yards, from the eastern end of these islets. 



Fish rock, 10 feet high, bears 331°, distant IjV miles from the 

 western point of Fox island, and a rock, with 10 feet of water on it, 

 lies east-southeastward 200 yards from Fish rock. 



Ram islands, a group of islands and rocks nearly 3 miles long 

 northward and southward, and lying north-northeastward, distant 2 

 miles from Fox island, are divided into two parts, the southern 

 known as the Upper Rams, and the northern as the Lower Rams. 



The Upper Rams are four in number, namely. Merchant, Burke, 

 Hole-in-the-wall, and King islands. 



Merchant island, the southern, is conical, 310 feet above high 

 water, and has a large patch of white moss at the summit that makes 

 it conspicuous from the southward. Off the southwestern end is an 

 islet called Shag rock, low and steep-to. Off the northwestern point 

 is a small island 14 feet above high water, joined by shoal water to 

 Merchant island ; and in the cliannel between Merchant and Burke 

 islands, about 100 yards from the east point of Merchant island, is a 

 rock, with 5 feet water on it. 



The channel between Merchant and Burke islands is 400 yards 

 wide, and is clear in the middle; but in addition to the rock men- 

 tioned above, there is a shoal, with 6 feet of water, 100 yards from the 

 southwestern extreme of Burke island. 



Burke island is composed of a group of conical hills, sloping 

 steeply to the sea, and to a valley in the center of the island. The 

 two highest are over the south shore, 303 aijd 285 feet above high 

 water. Little Burke island lies off the northeastern end; it has a 

 square toj), 42 feet above high water, and a spur rock extending west 



