138 CAPE RACE TO CREW POINT. 



Plateau. — Ked island rests on a platean of less than .V) fathoms 

 water, which leaves only a narrow valley between the platean of 

 Merasheen island on the west and that of the Seal islands on the 

 north, and which, extendino' 4 miles from the southern side of the 

 island, does not extend beyond ^ mile on the other sides. Southward 

 of the island the depth of 5 fathoms will be found at ^ mile south- 

 southwest from Hole-in-the-Wall point, the southwestern point of the 

 island. To the southeastward of this are Murph}^ rock with 8 fathoms, 

 Neverfail rock with 10 fathoms, and Red Island rocks with T to 15 

 fathoms, the last-named rocks being 3 miles, in a direction 220°, from 

 Rog-ges point, the southern point of Red island. 



Goat island, surmounted by a remarkable tree, 108 feet above 

 high water, has no navigable passage, unless a local pilot be taken, 

 between it and the northern end of Red island, from which it is dis- 

 tant 250 yards. 



Goat island sunker bears 270°. distant 800 yards from the south- 

 ern end of Goat island, and dries 2 feet at low water. 



Little Seal islands, 2 miles north-northeastward from Goat 

 island, consist of a small group, occupying an area 700 yards long and 

 250 3^ards broad; the eastern and highest island is 91 feet high, and 

 covered with small trees. 



Great Seal islands, -h mile north-northeastward from Little Seal 

 islands, is flat in outline, 346 feet high, and falls in steep cliffs to the 

 southward, but slopes gradually to the northward. It should not be 

 approached nearer than 200 yards. 



Long" island, situated 1^ miles eastward of Merasheen island, 

 13 miles long northward and southward, and 1^ miles broad at its 

 widest part, contains two good harbors — Buffet harbor on the south- 

 eastern side and jNIussel harbor on the southwestern side of the island. 



Buffet head, tlie southern end of the island, is a remarkable per- 

 pendicular cliff about 300 feet high, falling from the summit of the 

 island. 599 feet high, at about 1 mile to the northward. This summit, 

 named Mount Ironskull, is readily recognized from all parts of 

 Placentia bay. 



Iron island lies southward 1.200 yards from Buffet head; it is 

 bluff, flat-topped, 245 feet high, and bold-to. 



Ironskull rock, southeastward 1,000 yards from Iron island, 

 is 14 feet high, and steep-to, except on its southwestern side, from 

 which a reef that covers 2 feet at high water extends 200 yards. 



Dog" islands, about a mile north-northeastward of Buffet head, 

 are three wooded islets, the highest being 135 feet high, separated 

 from Long island by a channel 400 yards wide. There is a passage 

 in mid-channel between the western and the two eastern islands, but 

 none between the two eastern. 



