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but after half flood boats can enter and obtain water. An islet 27 

 feet high and covered with grass is situated close off the north 

 entrance point. 



Barren island, situated 1^ miles southwestward of Little Wood7V 

 island, is separated from the mainland by a channel TOO j^ards wide. 

 It is in the shape of an ii-regular triangle, the apex being at the 

 southwestern extreme, and the island being nearly 4 miles long and 

 If miles wide at the northeastern side. 



Two peninsulas extend from its southeastern side ; the northeastern 

 forms Barren Island harbor and the northeastern part of AVestem 

 cove, being connected to Barren island by a beach of shingle between 

 the heads of these coves. Western Cove head, the other peninsula, 

 is joined to the island b}" a low marshy neck. The island contains 

 three principal hills, the highest of which, near the middle of the 

 island, is 490 feet high. 



The southwestern point of Barren island terminates in a small 

 islet. 29 feet high, and surmounted by a conspicuous single tree. 



Barren Island harbor, 900 yards long and 150 yards broad, 

 affords shelter to small vessels from all but easterly winds. The 

 anchorage is in 6 to 8 fathoms water, and the shores are bold-to; 

 but the southeastern entrance point must not be rounded closely. 

 A considerable settlement lines the shores, and an old wooden church, 

 with a belfry near, stands on a mound northwestward of the head. 



Western cove is situated on the southeastern side of Barren island, 

 being formed by the two peninsulas mentioned above, the entrance 

 between them being f mile wide. Western Cove head rises to a sharp 

 peak 223 feet high, is covered with an alternation of Avood and grass, 

 and its outer coast is marked by brown landslips. Several round 

 wooded hills lie south of the summit. 



James point, the northeastern entrance point, is bold-to, but from 

 West point a bank extends 400 yards. A shoal, with 3 fathoms water 

 over it, bears 107° a little more than 200 yards from West point. 

 The beach at the southwestern head of the cove, open northward of 

 West point, bearing 268°, leads northwestward; and the church in 

 Barren Island harbor, shut in with the southeastern shore of Western 

 cove, bearing 30°, leads southeastward of this shoal. 



The northern part of the cove is ^ mile deep and ^ mile wide at 

 the entrance, but narrows to the beach, which is 250 yards broad at 

 the head. From the beach shoal ground extends 250 yards, but south 

 of that the depth ranges from 10 to 16 fathoms in the middle of the 

 cove. 



The southern part is 750 yards deep, 400 yards wide at the en- 

 trance, and terminates at the head in a shingle beach 200 yards wide. 



Glindon cove, a small bight on the shore northwestward of the 

 entrance to Western cove, has a few houses round it : there are also a 



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