156 CAPE EACE TO CREW POIXT, 



Saddleback islet, castellated, black, and 104 feet high, with grass 

 at the summit, is the most conspicuous of the group, and is bold-to. 

 The passage betwen it and Long rock is 400 yards wide and clear in 

 mid-channel. 



Little Saddleback islet, black and about 20 feet high, bears 

 119°, distant 600 yards from Saddleback. There is deep water close 

 eastward of it, but a bank, with 4J fathoms least water extends in a 

 direction 189° for 600 yards from the islet, and breaks in bad weather. 



Oderin bank is a large shoal with depths on it varying from 5^ 

 to 27 fathoms. The western shoal, with 6 fathoms of water over it. 

 bears 137°, distant 4f miles from Saddleback. From this shoal the 

 bank trends northeasterly 4^^ miles to Eastern rock, a shoal with 5J 

 fathoms water, the intervening ground being very uneven. 



Big" shoal, on which the least water is 7 fathoms, extends south- 

 westward 3 miles from Oderin bank, from which it is separated by a 

 gully ^ mile wide with depths of 20 to 53 fathoms. 



John-on-tlie-bay bank lies ^ mile southward of Big shoal, the 

 water between deepening to 45 fathoms. It is f mile in extent be- 

 tween the depths of 30 fathoms. Southwest rock, with 8 fathoms 

 water, is the shoalest part of this bank. 



Osmond, Dicks, and Joe rocks are three heads of a bank, with 

 least water of 12 fathoms, Joe rock, the westernmost, being nearly 

 2J miles in a direction 181° from Saddleback. 



Jim Drake ledge, with 7 fathoms of water, bears 201°, distant 

 1 mile from Saddleback. 



Western rocks, a group of square dark islets, the highest of which 

 is 20 feet high, bear 272°, distant 1^ miles from Saddleback. 



Wa,shing-tub islet, 5 feet high, bears 249°, distant 1-i miles from 

 AVestern rocks. It is surrounded by reefs, and is nearly connected to 

 Western rocks by a line of shoals that break in ordinary weather, 

 leaving scarcely room for a boat to pass between. 



South, sunker, on which the depth is 2 feet, bears 157°, distant 1 

 mile from Western rocks, and there is deep water close southward of 

 it. Harr}^ ledge, with 5 fathoms water over it, lies in the same 

 direction 1| miles from Western rocks. 



Smith shoal, a bank 600 yards long, with depths varying from 

 3| to 5 fathoms, bears 190°, distant 1^% miles from Western rocks. 



Kelpy sunker, with 9 feet water over it. bears 154°, distant l^^ 

 miles from Washing-tub islet ; there is a shoal of 3 fathoms of water 

 eastward nearly 200 yards from it. 



Clearing marks. — Middle island open eastward of Saddleback, 

 bearing 24°, leads eastward, and Roche peak of Flat island, open 

 eastward of Western rocks, bearing 314°. leads northward of these 

 shoals. 



