WOODY ISLANDS LA PLANTE. 115 



may also be had in different parts of the Sound according to the 

 length of the vessel. 



"Woody islands consist of two large and some small islands. 

 Woody island, the largest, is 2 miles long and nearly 1 mile wide, 

 and is surmounted by wooded hills, the highest being 327 feet high. 

 Hardy rocks are a small cluster situated south-southwestward f mile 

 from the northeastern end of Woody island; the highest is 7 feet 

 high, and they are steep-to on the southeastern side. 



A rock, that dries 5 feet, lies a short distance from the south- 

 western end of Woody island. 



Creve islets, which are nearly joined to each other and to Woody 

 island at low water, lie off the western coast, and shelter a small cove 

 almost filled with rocks, known as AVoody Island harbor; but there 

 is scarcely swinging room for even a very short vessel. A settle- 

 ment is situated here, with a church and schoolhouse. 



The largest of Creve islets is partially wooded and grassy, 25 feet 

 high, and lies 600 yards from the mainland. There is deep water 

 200 yards distant from the west side. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage, for small vessels southwest- 

 ward of Creve islets, in 8 fathoms water. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, at Woody island at 

 8h. 9m. ; springs rise 7 feet, neaps 4^ feet. 



Coniniunication. — The steamer from Placentia calls at Woody 

 island weekly. 



Little "Woody island, 183 feet high, is situated 500 yards south- 

 southwestward of Woody island, to which it is joined at its north- 

 western end b}^ a bar with 1 to 3 feet over it at low water. It is 

 about ^ mile long, ^ mile wide, and is partly wooded over gray rock, 

 the summit 183 feet above high water, falling in a steep bluff to the 

 southeastern extreme. Several pinnacle rocks are joined to the 

 shores, and a sand pit, that covers at high water, extends 200 yards 

 from the northwestern extreme. The other sides are steep-to. 



Sliag rock, a small pinnacle 15 feet high, lying in mid-channel, 

 between the western end of Woody island and the mainland, has a 

 shoal extending from its southwestern side. 



Sugarloaf island, 101 feet high, is situated ^ mile from the south- 

 w^estern end of Woody island; it should not be closed to less than 

 200 yards. 



La Plante sunker, awash at low water, lies at the end of a bank 

 extending 650 yards south-southwestward from Sugarloaf island. 

 Shag rock, open northwestward of that island, bearing 36°, leads 

 northwestward; and open southeastward, bearing 15°, leads south- 

 eastward of this rock. 



La Plante is a shallow indentation on the mainland, 1 mile south- 

 westward of Sugarloaf island. This cove nearly dries at low water. 



