BAY DE l'eAU BOAT HAEBOR HEAD. 149 



Bay de I'Eau, extending north-northeast, with a slight bend, 

 nearly 4 miles, is about 900 yards in breadth ; the water is deep and 

 clear for 2 miles from the entrance, when it shoals suddenly from 18 

 to 7 fathoms in mid-channel. A depth of 6 to 7 fathoms, mud bot- 

 tom, then continues for f mile, and affords sheltered anchorage. 



Water and wood can be procured readily from many places on 

 the shores of this bay. 



Cross island, 2^ miles long northeastward and southwestward 

 and 1^ miles broad, is surmounted by two conspicuous hills, covered 

 with moss. The highest and northern has a small, flat summit 593 

 feet high, and the southern is a sharp peak 550 feet above high water. 

 Lower, rugged, and wooded hills, with deep valleys between, extend 

 to the shores, sloping steeply to the water line. Rocks that cover lie 

 off the southeastern shore that should not be approached nearer than 

 200 yards, and shoal water extends a short distance from the points 

 on the northwestern side. A shoal, with 6 fathoms water, bears 194°, 

 distant |- mile from the southwestern point, and a rock, with 5 fathoms 

 water, lies 200 yards off the northwestern shore, opposite the channel 

 between Petticoat and Gull islands. 



Gooseberry islet, 34 feet high, the northern end of a chain of 

 islands lying westward of Cross island, is small and cliffy with shoal 

 water extending a short distance northeastward of it ; a rock, with 5 

 feet water over it and the end of a ledge, bears 205°, distant 150 yards 

 from the islet. 



Petticoat island, 182 feet high, is separated from the southern 

 end of Gooseberry islet by a passage 400 yards wide, 2 fathoms deep, 

 and clear in mid-channel. It is wooded over three round hills, the 

 highest 182 feet high. A rock, with 7 feet water over it, lies nearly 

 200 3"ards off a cove at the northeastern end, and shoal water extends 

 a short distance off the northwestern coast of the island. 



Gull island is 450 yards south-southwest of Petticoat island, and 

 the channel between is clear of danger. The highest part, a wooded 

 cone 210 feet above high water, lies near the northeastern extreme; 

 the southeastern shore has dark cliffs and is steep-to, and the north- 

 western shore consists of shingle beaches at the base of gentle slopes. 



Little Gull island, a grass-covered rock 30 feet high, is nearly 

 joined to the southwestern extreme of Gull island. 



Jerseyman island, 257 feet high, is flat in outline and wooded, 

 falling steeply to the shore, and terminated to the northward by a 

 small islet 7 feet above high water. A rock, on which there is 6 feet 

 water, bears 180°, distant 200 yards from the southern extreme. 

 The passage between Jerseyman island and the mainland is clear, the 

 distance to Broad Cove head being 1 mile. 



Boat Harbor head, dividing bay de I'Eau from Boat harbor, 

 falls in steep bluffs from a moss-covered tableland 490 feet high, and 

 is fringed on its western side bv shingle beaches. 



