144 CAPE RACE TO CREW POINT. 



Petit Fort harbor, next AvestAvard of Paradise sound, is entered 

 through a passage 400 yards wide between Eastern head, a sharp 

 point on the eastern side, and AVhite point, low and shelving, with 

 small rocks a short distance off on the western side. The harbor ex- 

 tends north by east If miles, expanding to ^ mile Avide inside the en- 

 trance and thence narroAA'ing gradually to the head. Two wooded 

 islets, about 20 feet high, lie close to the AAest shore, and nearly join 

 each other and the mainland at Ioaa- AAater. Petit Fort harbor is sur- 

 rounded by high hills, those on the east shore being a series of sharp 

 peaks, 272 to 375 feet high, Avith deep A^illeys between, and on the 

 west shore a wooded, flat range 450 feet high, faced by cliffs, and 

 falling almost perpendicularh' to the AAater line. 



Shoals. — A shoal, w^ith 7 feet Avater OAer it, bears 131°, about 800 

 yards from Eastern head, and the ground inside this shoal is foul. 



A shoal, nearly in mid-channel, immediately AA'ithin the harbor 

 entrance, has 12 feet AAater over it, and is steep-to. Long island, open 

 eastward of Xonsuch head, bearing about 202°, leads eastward of 

 this shoal. 



Petit fort, a small cove on the Avestern shore, is formed by a 

 peninsula rising to a round Avooded hill about 90 feet high ; on the 

 neck joining this peninsula to the mainland stands the church, which 

 is a Avhite wooden building. Off the neck lies a cliffy island 20 feet 

 high, joined to the mainland at low water. A settlement surrounds 

 the coA^^e. 



Harrington coat, next south of Petit fort, has a fcAV houses round 

 the shores, and a small islet, 13 feet high, off' the south point. 



Anchorage may be had as convenient, after the shoal in the en- 

 trance is passed, in 5 to 10 fathoms Avater, mud bottom. Small A^essels 

 should proceed northward of the Avooded islets on the Avestern shore, 

 where they are sheltered from all Avinds. 



Coniinunication. — The steamer from Placentia calls at Petit Fort 

 harbor Aveekly. 



Wild cove, immediately soutliAvestAvard of Petit Fort harbor en- 

 trance, is quite open. 



Nonsuch head, a steep bluff rising to a round Avooded sunnnit 

 253 feet high, is the dividing point between Petit Fort harbor and 

 Nonsuch. Off the south side of the head is a detached rocky hum- 

 mock, 30 feet high : off the southwestern side of the head are some 

 low square rocks, and a shoal, with 9 feet water over it, lies south- 

 westward about 400 yards from the head. 



Shag" islets, 16 feet high, lie close off the northwestern part 

 of Nonsuch head. A rock, that covers 6 feet, lies southward 100 

 yards, and a ledge extends the same distance north-northwestward 

 from them. 



