WEST HEAD LOXG POINT. 137 



Communication. — The steamer from Placentia calls at Mera- 

 sheen harbor weekly. 



West head is the sciithwestern point of Pond head, the south- 

 western peninsida of Merasheen island. 



Pond Head sunkers ])ears 242". distant 500 yards from ]Mar- 

 garet point, the northern end of Pond head, and nearly always 

 breaks. 



Clearing marks. — Fish island. 12 feet high, open northwest- 

 ward of Margaret point, bearing about 67°, leads northward, and 

 Long Point rock, open southward of West head, bearing 123°, leads 

 southward of these rocks. 



Little Merasheen harbor, situated eastward of Pond head and 

 separated by a narrow isthmus from the head of Merasheen harbor, 

 is 400 yards deep, but it is narrow and shallow, so that only three 

 small craft can lie there, and it is quite open north-northeastward. 

 A large settlement surrounds this and Merasheen harbor. 



Two miles northeastward of Little Merasheen harbor is Breakheart 

 point. 



Navig-ation. — In clear weather, for navigating this part of Pla- 

 centia bay, the mariner Avill find useful the eastern ends of the two 

 Burgeo islands in line bearing 10^. This range clears all dangers 

 off Merasheen island to the eastward, and all those off the mainland 

 to the westward. 



Red island is situated eastward about 1^ miles from the south- 

 eastern part of Merasheen island. On the southwestern slope of the 

 summit of the island, which is 880 feet high, is a gi"ay spot that when 

 seen from the southward appears like a small cloud or smoke. 

 The Tolt, a sharp cone 723 feet high, has a white stripe extending 

 from its summit nearly f down its northern face. 



Red Island harbor, close southwestward of a point on the north- 

 eastern coast of Red island, is fronted by several extensive rocky 

 shoals and available for only a few small craft. It is 360 yards deep 

 and about 100 yards wide, with 8 feet of water in it. A settlement 

 surrounds the harbor. 



Communication. — The steamer from Placentia calls at Red 

 Island harbor weekly. 



Cochrane cove, 200 yards deep, with a shingle beach at the head. 

 is i; mile southward of Red Island harbor. 



Southwest cove, on the northwest coast, is fringed by a beach 

 of shingle. Small fishing vessels anchor here with offshore winds, in 

 6 to 9 fathoms water. 



Southwest Cove head, westward of this cove, is also Imown as 

 Blue point, from the apparent color of the land in ordinary weather. 



Long" point, in the middle of the northwest coast, is low and 

 sloping, and shoal water extends nearly 200 yards from it. 



