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No vessel should go into this harbor for the first time without a 

 pilot. 



Steering" rock, T feet high, lies southward 350 yards from the 

 entrance to Bane harbor. A low black rock lies off the southwestern 

 extreme, and a rock, with 2 feet water, bears 25°, distant 50 yards 

 from the eastern extreme. 



Communication.— The steamer from Placentia calls at Bane 

 harbor weekly. 



Miller point, J mile south by west of Bane harbor, is a low projec- 

 tion from a high range, and is bold-to. 



Rushoon head is the end of a range of cliffs ^ mile southwest- 

 ward of Miller point, falling from a high, barren tableland sur- 

 mounted by a bowlder 330 feet above high water. Low bowlders ex- 

 tend a short distance from the head with deep water close-to. 



Rushoon harbor, entered northward of Nipper head, a dark, 

 wooded hill 112 feet high, situated | mile northwestward of Rushoon 

 head, is a shallow harbor, affording good sheltered anchorage for 

 fishing craft in 2^ to 5 fathoms water; it dries 200 yards from the 

 fresh-water brook at the head. 



Jigging" cove, between Hushoon and Nipper heads, is faced by 

 a steep-to shingle beach on which are several houses. 



A rock, that covers 3 feet at high water, with a shoal stretch- 

 ing a short distance southwestward, bears 295°, distant 650 yards 

 from Rushoon head, and a rock with 6 feet water lies 140 yards from 

 Nipper head. 



Anchorag-e. — Vessels may anchor on a flat outside Rushoon in 

 7^ fathoms, mud, with the northeastern point of the entrance to the 

 brook at the head open of Nipper head, bearing about 5°, to clear the 

 rock that covers; or inside that rock, close off the beach at Jigging 

 cove, by having the northeastern end of Jerseyman island well shut 

 in with Rushoon head, bearing about 144°. 



Rushoon bank, with 9 fathoms water, bears 205°, distant 600 

 yards from Rushoon head. 



The coast between Rushoon and East Broad cove 2 miles south- 

 ward, slopes steeply from wooded hills, and may be approached to 

 within 100 yards. Gull rock, near the entrance of the cove and close 

 to the shore, is 10 feet abo^^e high water and shows Avhite against the 

 dark background. 



Broad Cove head, a peninsula nearly 1 mile long, ^ mile wide, 

 and 307 feet high, is separated from the mainland by a narrow, 

 marshy isthmus about 60 feet high. 



East Broad cove, on the northern side of the marshy isthmus, 

 affords good anchorage in 7 to 12 fathoms, mud and sand, the hold- 

 ing ground being better nearer the western shore, on which are sev- 

 eral houses. There is a shingle beach at the head of the cove. A 



