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The islets in the northern group are all above high water, the 

 highest being 7 feet. There is deep water at 100 yards from this 

 group. 



Whales back, a rock that dries 4- feet, bears 101°, distant 1,800 

 yards from the north extreme of great isle of Valen. It is steep-io 

 on all sides but the west, from which a shoal with 15 feet water on it 

 extends 200 yards. This rock nearly always shows by a breaker. 



T"wo rockSj covering a space 100 yards long, with -t feet least 

 water, bear 17°, distant f mile from Grandmother rocks, and a shoal 

 with 12 feet lies at the same distance on the bearing of 352°. Two 

 shoals, with 4^ and 5 fathoms on them, lie a little more than 200 yards 

 southward of this shoal. 



Sam Adams shoal, with 5^ fathoms, bears 3°, distant 1 mile from 

 Grandmother rocks, and a shoal with 4^ fathoms water lies nearly 

 midway between it and the rock with 4 feet water. 



Big- shoal, witli 3^ fathoms water, bears 157°, distant 850 yards 

 from Grandmother rocks. Little isle of Valen open eastwsird of 

 great isle of Valen, bearing 205°, leads east of this shoal. 



Great isle of Valen is separated on its western side from the 

 mainland by a deep channel | mile wide. The island is much in- 

 dented and intersected by many valleys which are thickly wooded; 

 the hills, most of which have bare summits, attain an elevation of 520 

 feet, and picturesque lakes are situated among them. 



The island is 3 miles long, nearly Vt miles broad, and terminates 

 toward the north in an isolated wooded hillock 180 feet high. A 

 rock that dries is situated close northeast of the square rock which 

 terminates this point, and a beach of shingle lies inshore of the 

 hillock. 



Pete cove, on the east coast, nearly 1^ miles from the northern 

 extreme, contains several islets, the eastern and highest being 8 feet 

 above high water. A rock lies between the two eastern islets, but 

 the water is deep to the eastward. Pete Cove head, a bare isolated 

 hill 260 feet high, stands north of this cove. 



Storehouse cove, on the southeastern coast, an indentation 800 

 yards deep, terminates in a small bight, 100 yards in diameter, where 

 fishing craft find good shelter. Sugarloaf island, a cone 43 feet high, 

 lies in the middle of the entrance; and Blow-me-down, a conspicuous 

 bluff 425 feet high, falls steeply to the north entrance point. Below 

 that hill shoals fringe the shore for 100 yards. 



A rock, with less than 6 feet water on it, bears 149°, distant 70 

 yards from Sugarloaf island, and another rock, with 12 feet water 

 on it, bears 56°, distant 100 yards from the first named. A rock, with 

 7 feet water, bears 236°, distant 60 yards from Sugarloaf island. A 

 small islet is joined to the south shore by shoal water, and off the 



