132 CAPE RACE TO CREW POINT. 



Brandies shoal, a patch of three rocks, 300 yards in extent, bears 

 265°, distant 1| miles from the northern end of Jean de Gaunt island. 

 The two western rocks dry 2 feet, the eastern has 2 feet water over 

 it at low water, and all generally break. 



Forked Duck rock, about 3 feet high, and so named from the 

 forked appearance presented by its two small pinnacles, bears 309°, 

 distant 1,650 yards from the western end of Galton island. Western 

 sunker, with 4 feet water on it, bears 253°, distant 800 yards from 

 Forked Duck rock. Both these are small, and steep-to. 



Leading mark. — Greens island of White islands (see p. 120) 

 shut in with West island of the same group, bearing 27°, leads west- 

 ward of these rocks. 



Shag island, 77 feet high, stands out prominently about half- 

 way between Ragged and ^Vhite islands. Roost rocks, 6 feet high, lie 

 100 yards northwestward of this island, and are continued a short 

 distance by shoal water. 



Shag Roost sunkers, two of which dry at low water, bear 

 about 225°, distant about f mile from Shag island. 



Broad cove, King island, a good harbor for small craft, lies 

 about 1 mile eastward from Shag island, and may be distinguished 

 by Pond head, a round, wooded mound, 125 feet high, on the western 

 side of the entrance, and Tacks lookout, a bare-topped hill, 212 feet 

 high, that falls almost perpendicularly to the eastern side of the cove. 



The cove is 750 yards deep and 250 yards broad, but a shoal, on 

 which the depth is 11 feet, lies close to the eastern shore, and 

 the head is filled with rocks that dry at low water. 



Tacks beach, the head of a bay 600 yards across, is only 50 yards 

 wide between the bay and a cove on the southeastern side of King 

 island. A settlement, with a schoolhouse, is built round a small bight 

 northwestward of the beach, and on the low projection separating the 

 two. Boats proceed from Ragged islands to Buffet harbor of Long 

 island by hauling over this beach, and over a similar one at Dog har- 

 bor in Merasheen island, whence they cross to Mussel harbor, which is 

 connected by road with Buffet harbor. 



Anchorage can be obtained here only in moderate weather, and 

 the holding ground is bad. 



Communication. — The steamer from Placentia calls at Tacks 

 beach weekly. 



Tacks head, northward of the beach, is the most conspicuous 

 headland in Ragged islands; it rises in steep bluffs to a sharp peak 

 420 feet high. 



Cooper cove, a small boat harbor, lies at the southern base of 

 Tacks head, a steep high hill separating it from Tacks beach. 



New Harbor head, 1 mile northward of Tacks head, is a con- 

 spicuous square, wooded headland, 130 feet high, and the summit 



