118 CAPE KACE TO CREW POINT. 



Great Sandy Harbor entrance, not quite 200 yards wide, situated 

 1| miles northwestward of Bell island, has only 2^ fathoms; rocks 

 lie close to either shore, and the harbor is generally ver}^ shallow. 



The approach to Great Sandy harbor may be readily distinguished 

 by the offlying islands and by a wooded hill with a bare top 256 

 feet above high water, which lies northeast of the entrance. Close 

 south of the hill is a wooded islet 53 feet high, and south of the islet 

 is a bare rock 6 feet above high water. The west side of the entrance 

 is formed by a wooded peninsula nearly a mile long and 180 feet high. 

 Near the north extreme is a bluff point with a small bight in it. 



The harbor is entered through a channel not quite 200 yards wide, 

 between the base of the hill and the bluff point just described. Imme- 

 diately within the entrance an arm extends northeast for 450 yards, 

 and is 250 yards broad. Avith ?>} fathoms in the middle, but only 2^ 

 fathoms in the entrance. 



The main harbor trends southwest for 800 yards, with a breadth of 

 350 yards, then bends sharply to the northwest, in which direction it 

 extends 1| miles, expanding to 1,300 yards wide for nearly | mile, when 

 the basin contracts to the entrance of a stream 100 yards wide. 

 Nearly the whole of this basin dries at low water, leaving a narrow 

 passage, for boats only, close to the shore ; in the first bend not more 

 than 6 feet can be carried. The hills surrounding the harbor are 

 partly wooded and slope gradually to the southwestern arm. 



Civil East cove is a slight curve in the southeastern coast of the 

 peninsula, protected by Civil East island and affording shelter to 

 small fishing craft in 2| fathoms. A few houses stand on the shore, 

 surrounded by small patches of cultivation. A rock with 6 feet of 

 water on it lies midway between the island and the mainland. 



Civil East island is about 40 feet high, flat, and partly wooded. 

 It is 400 yards long, and a rock awash at low water lies close to the 

 southwestern extreme. 



Anchorag'e may be had, with good holding ground, on a plateau 

 of sand lying between Civil East cove and the entrance to Great 

 Sandy harbor, in from 4f to 6 fathoms, with shelter from all but 

 southerly to southwesterly winds. 



Tides.— It is high water, full and change, in Great Sandy harbor 

 at 8h. 9m. ; springs rise 6f feet ; neaps rise 5 feet. 



Great Coat island, 45 feet high and 100 yards in diameter, round 

 and wooded, lies 250 yards southwestward of the southern entrance 

 to Civil East cove. There is a clear passage west of it, but a rock 

 that dries lies a short distance from the southwestern end. 



Little Sandy harbor, one mile soutliAvestward of Great Sandy 

 harbor, is entered through a channel 200 yards wide, south of Great 

 Coat island, between the cliffy southwestern extreme of the peninsula 

 dividing it from Great Sandy harbor and Stearin rock, a flat bare 



