• GREEN ISLAND DUCK ROCKS. 133 



of an island which forms the northern shore of New harbor. This 

 harbor is a shallow inclosure available only for boats. 



Green island, f mile northward of New Harbor head, is wooded, 

 and 100 feet high. Several small islets lie off both its eastern and 

 western ends; and a rock, that dries 4 feet at low water, bears 287°, 

 distant 300 yards from its western end. 



Marshall island is flat, wooded, and about 50 feet high; a rock 

 that dries 2 feet lies east-southeastward 250 yards from it. 



North Tilt island, situated eastward 1 mile from Marshall 

 island, has a tuft of trees, the top of which is 155 feet above high 

 water, on it. The other islands of the Ragged Island group are diffi- 

 cult to distinguish, the passages between being narrow. 



HoUett's islands, at the northern end of the Ragged islands, are 

 low and covered with small trees. 



Bag-g-'s island, 6 feet high, and bare, lies north-northeastward 

 of the passage between Merasheen and Ragged islands ; rocks extend 

 north-northeastward and south-southwestward nearly 200 yards 

 from it. 



In the large bay northeastward of this island a luirrow neck 

 divides the bay from Great Brule harbor, on the northeastern side 

 of Merasheen island. A conspicuous white house, surrounded by 

 cultivated land, stands on the southern side of the bay, A small 

 wooded eminence, 66 feet high, on the summit of which there is a 

 church, stands on the narrow neck. 



St. Bernard, a small cove northward of the bay. also has some 

 houses built rotmd the shore. 



The northern end of Merasheen island is a high rocky peninsula, 

 surmounted by bare hills on the west, covered with moss in the middle, 

 and terminating at the northeast in a steep slope from a dark wooded 

 hill, off which is situated Winging rock, a small bare islet 6 feet high. 



The western side of this peninsula is bordered by Duck islet, 9 feet 

 high, dark and barren, situated about 1 mile from the northern end 

 of the passage between Merasheen and Ragged islands, and by 

 numerous rocks and islets situated about f mile from shore. 



White island, 108 feet high, lies 750 yards northward from the 

 northeastern end of Merasheen island, but the navigable passage, nar- 

 rowed to 400 yards in width by the shoals off Stickland point, the 

 northwestern point of the peninsula, is available onW for small 

 vessels. 



Duck rocks are two small bare rocks, situated 1,800 j^ards north- 

 eastward from the northeastern end of W^iite island. The northern 

 and higher is 4 feet high ; and close westward of it lies a rock awash 

 at low water. These rocks are all the summit of a bank, extending 

 f mile northwestward and 600 yards northward from them, within 

 the depth of 10 fathoms, on which are numerous shoals. 



