FLOWER SHOAL FLAT ISLAND COVE. 157 



Flower shoal, the Avestern of this group, bears 230°. distant 2 

 miles from Washing-tub islet, and consists of 2 heads a short distance 

 apart; the shoalest. with 9 feet of water over it, breaks only in bad 

 weather. 



Green islands are a grouj) h'ing 2i miles westerly from the 

 southern point of Jude island. 



Green island, the largest, is 32 feet high, and sunken rocks extend 

 westward, northward, and eastward of it for a distance of nearly 

 1,400 yards. 



Flat islands, lying between Jude island and the mainland, and 

 separated from the latter by a channel 1 mile wide, are 2 large islands 

 and a great number of smaller islands and rocks. 



Yardie island, the eastern of the group, is 130 feet high ; a ledge 

 extends 250 yards from its northeastern end, and islets and rocks, 

 with deep water close southward of them, lie a short distance off its 

 southern side. Tinkershare island, small and wooded, lies close west- 

 ward of Yardie island. 



Glimshire island, 100 feet high, flat and wooded, is separated 

 from the west side of Yardie island by a channel 350 yards wide, 

 contahiing several islets and rocks. A stranger should not take this 

 passage. 



Flat island, the largest of the group, is 2 miles long, and nearly 

 divided into three parts by coves extending from both shores. The 

 eastern part is high and wooded, surmounted by a flat summit 236 

 feet high, and terminated to the southward in Roche peak, a remark- 

 able sharp-topi^ed hill 203 feet high. Vinegar hill, a sharp cone 150 

 feet high, lies between them. The middle part of the island has a 

 flat range on the east side, with several wooded tufts, the highest lOT 

 feet high, and some lower wooded hills to the westward inclosing a 

 pond. The western part is composed of a flat hill about 100 feet high, 

 a conical mound 82 feet high, and several low wooded hills on the 

 northwestern shore terminating in sand cliffs.. 



Flat Island cove is on the northeastern side of the island, between 

 the east and middle parts. It is 700 yards long and 600 yards wide, 

 affording good anchorage in 8 fathoms, mud, with shelter from all 

 winds but those from north to east. At the head is a shingle beach, 

 about 10 feet above high water, containing a salt-water pond, divid- 

 ing Flat Island cove from Flat Island harbor. The water is shoal 

 100 yards from the head of the cove, the depth decreasing gradually. 

 A ledge extends 300 yards to the eastward from Foots point, north of 

 the cove, that should be given a good berth when turning into the 

 cove. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Flat Island cove at 

 8h. 2Tm. ; springs rise 6| feet, neaps 5 feet. 



