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high water. Sunken rocks lie 200 yards off these islets, and the 

 channel between them and the mainland should not be taken. 



A swell rolls across the entrance of this bay even when it is calm 

 outside, especially after a prevalence of southerly winds. 



Cape Roger mountain, a conspicuous round hill, 1,220 feet 

 high, lies 9^ miles inland from cape Roger, and shows prominently 

 over the intervening land from the banks in Placentia bay. 



Cape Rog-er harbor, situated on the western shore of the bay 

 at 1^ miles within its entrance, is sheltered by Harbor island, which 

 is wooded, 113 feet high and 400 yards long, separated at the south- 

 ern end from the mainland by a narrow channel, through which 4 

 feet can be carried at low water. This harbor affords anchorage for 

 small craft only, between the island and the mainland, in 2 fathoms, 

 sand ; but large vessels may find anchorage anj^where in the bay after 

 the island is passed in from 4 to 10 fathoms, mud, as convenient. 



Eocks extend off the point next south of Harbor island, in a line 

 crossing the bay, and that part of the west shore should not be ap- 

 proached nearer than 200 yards, but the island may be closed to within 

 100 yards from the east point. Rocks that cover lie in the harbor 

 close southwest of Harbor island. A conspicuous round hill 470 feet 

 high lies on the eastern shore, separated by a marsh from the hills of 

 cape Roger, and shows out well from the south. 



Cape Roger head, marking the western side of the entrance, is 

 498 feet high and falls steeply to the bay, but in wooded slopes to the 

 northwestward and in a succession of wooded hills to the southwest 

 point of the bay; a rugged, cliffy point under a wooded hillock, off 

 which rocks that cover extend 200 yards. 



Water may be procured in many places, and small wood is abun- 

 dant in the valleys off this hsij. 



Little Gallows harbor extends northward nearly 1 mile on the 

 western side of the southwestern point of Cape Roger bay to a shingle 

 spit, within which it forms a small shallow basin. 



The harbor, which is 700 yards wide at its entrance, narrows to 200 

 yards off a peaked rock on the western shore at 1,200 yards within, 

 and thence gradually to the shingle spit. Shoal water extends a 

 short distance from both shores, and a bar with 4 feet of water on it 

 crosses the head of the harbor just outside the shingle spit. 



The water shoals suddenly from 17 to 8 fathoms off the first low 

 neck on the western shore, and thence gradually to the bar. A few 

 houses are situated round the head of the harbor. 



Anchorage.— Small vessels anchor in the harbor in 5 to 8 fathoms 

 of water, sheltered from all except southerly to southwesterly winds. 



Gallows Harbor head lies between Little Gallows and Gallows 

 harbors, and its northern end is separated from the mainland at high 

 water by Push through, a passage just wide enough for a boat. The 



