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Tides Cove sunker, bearing 233°, distant 550 yards from the west- 

 ern Dog island, covers 4 feet. This is the only known shoal off the 

 southern part of the coast. 



Buffet harbor is on the southeastern side and 3 miles from the 

 southern end of Long island. 



Buffet island, a cone 151 feet high, lies eastward ^ mile from the 

 harbor entrance, which may thereby be easily recognized. 



A shoal, with 4 fathoms water over it, bears 237°, distant 450 yards 

 from Buffet island; and Matthew rock, that covers 5 feet, and does 

 not always break, bears 6°, distant 450 yards from Buffet island. 



Clearing marks. — The eastern part of Dog islands open eastward 

 of Buffet island, bearing about 200°, leads eastward of Matthew rock, 

 and the northeastern fall of Iron island in line with the summit of 

 West Dog island, bearing 193°, leads westward. ^ 



Dicks island, 174 feet high, and Isaac island. 108 feet high, lie 

 southward of Buffet Harbor entrance, and are separated from Long 

 island by narrow channels, passable only for boats. On the shores of 

 these channels is a settlement named the Tickles. 



The harbor, within the entrance, divides into three arms; the 

 southern has shallow water stretching 200 yards from the shores, and 

 Seal rock, awash at high water, close to its w^estern point ; the northern 

 arm is | mile deep and 300 yards broad, and has no danger except a 

 rock with 12 feet of water. 100 yards from the eastern shore and 380 

 yards within the arm. The harbor proper, which is the western arm, has 

 a church, prominent houses, and wharves around it. The entrance 

 is clear, but a shoal extends 100 yards off a low point near the inner 

 entrance on the northern side, and the whole of Buffet island a little 

 open southward of the northern point, bearing about east, leads south- 

 ward of it. 



Anchorag'e. — In a large vessel anchor immediately within the 

 harbor in 17 to 20 fathoms water, but in small vessels in either of the 

 arms, as convenient. 



Ice. — Buffet harbor is partly or completely frozen over, every 

 second or third winter, from about the end of February to the begin- 

 ning of April. Northern ice only visits the harbor every third or 

 fourth year, and the time both of its arrival and departure is uncer- 

 tain ; it seldom arrives before March 1, and leaves between the end of 

 March and early in May. In 1868 and 1882 drift ice remained un- 

 usually late ; in the winters of 1875 and 1882 the bay was completely 

 frozen over, and these were the only occasions that this had happened 

 during forty years. 



Current. — The current generally sets south -south westward past 

 Buffet harbor, and in on the eastern shore of Placentia bay. 



Tides. — It is high water, fidl and change, in Buffet harbor at 

 8h. 12m. ; springs rise 7 feet, neaps 5 feet. 



