158 CAPE EACE TO CREW POINT. 



Hay cove, near the center of the ishmd between the middle and 

 Avestern parts, is filled with sunken rocks nearly to the line of the 

 points. It is much frequented by fishing craft in the caplin season, 

 when that bait is always plentiful. The bottom of the north shore 

 of this island is composed of bowlders, that extend fulh" 200 yards 

 from the shingle beaches that fringe it. Frenchman rock lies close off 

 the north point, and covers at high tide. 



Rocks. — A rock with 10 feet of water over it, bears 221°, distant 

 500 yards from the northwestern end of Flat island. 



Hiscock rocks, a group of low islets and sunken rocks, lie close off 

 the southern end of Flat island. 



Davis island is 1 mile long and has near its eastern end Osmond 

 hill, a sharp peak 114 feet high. 



Duck rock, 5 feet high, is the end of a ledge of rocks and shoals 

 stretching off the western point of Davis island; and Duck Rock 

 sunker, with 2 feet of water over it, bears 2°, distant 500 yards from 

 Duck rock. 



Flat Island harbor, between Flat and Davis islands, is ap- 

 proached from both sides in small craft, but in large vessels from the 

 eastern side only. The channels are both ver}' narrow and are ob- 

 structed by numerous rocks, and neither of them should be taken 

 without local knowledge. The harbor is 1 mile across and affords 

 good anchorage in 7 to 9 fathoms, mud bottom; the water shoals 

 suddenly close to the beach at the head. There is a large settlement 

 around this harbor. 



Communication. — The steamer from Placentia calls at Flat Is- 

 land harbor weekly. 



Copper island, the southern island of this group, is a wooded and 

 conspicuous cone, 135 feet high. Low islets extend southward J mile 

 from it, ending in Copper Island rock, 6 feet high. The northwestern 

 side of the island is foul for the distance of ^ mile. 



Paddle rocks are two shoals, with 3 fathoms of water over them, 

 lying 800 Awards apart on a line bearing 224 "\ the eastern bearing 233°, 

 distant 1^ miles from Copper island. 



Pinnacle rock, with 4 feet of water over it, bears 219°, distant 

 2 miles from Copper island, in the middle of the apparent fairway 

 between the mainland and Flat islands, and Upper Pinnacle, with 

 10 feet water over it, bears 219°, distant 750 j^ards from the Pinnacle. 



Red Harbor head, southwestward 2:^ miles from Broad Cove 

 head, is a steep cliff with a hole through the base and a small ledge of 

 rocks just inside. 



Red harbor extends northward on the western side of Red Harbor 

 head for 1^ miles, and is 800 yards broad. Rocks that cover lie close 

 to both shores, but the remainder of the harbor is clear. A small islet 

 is nearly joined to the western shore, and northward of this are a few 



