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houses. Two considerable streams flow into this harbor ; the deposit 

 from the western stream has formed a shoal extending nearly 300 

 yards from the mouth. 



Anchorage. — Anchor in 6 to 7 fathoms of water, sand bottom, off 

 the houses, sheltered from all but southerly and southeasterly winds, 

 which send in a heavy swell. 



Stanley rocks, which cover 1 foot at high water, bear 199°, dis- 

 tant If miles from Eed Harbor head. The sea nearly always breaks 

 on them, and they are bold-to within a short distance. 



Big shoal, with 4 fathoms of water over it, bears 231^. distant 

 1,850 yards from Stanley rocks. 



Black rock, small, and awash at high water, with a shoal extend- 

 ing 200 yards south westward of it, bears 233°, distant 1^ miles from 

 Stanley rocks. 



Woody island, bearing 219°, distant 1 mile from Black rock and 

 i mile from Dock point, the southern entrance point of John the bay, 

 is wooded, and 2.5 feet high. 



John the Bay harbor, 5 miles southwestward of Red Harbor 

 head, is 600 yards across and contains several rocks; it is a shallow 

 basin, where fishing craft anchor, in 3 fathoms of water, sheltered 

 from westerly winds. 



John the bay, an open cove, i mile southward of the harbor, 

 and locall}^ known as the Dock, is 1,100 yards wide. It affords good 

 anchorage in 10 fathoms of water, with winds from south-southeast, 

 through west, to north. The shores are rugged and foul ; at the head 

 is a sand cliff faced by a shingle beach, the eastern side of a marshy 

 isthmus about 50 feet high, that connects to the mainland the pen- 

 insula, forming Mortier bay. 



John the Bay islands, southeastward 2 miles from Dock point, 

 lie close off the eastern point of the peninsula, and are two gray islets 

 and some low rocks, the highest 44 feet high. Rocks that cover lie 

 northward nearly 200 yards from these islands, and a shoal, with 12 

 feet of water over it, lies 100 yards southward. 



John the Bay head, just southwestw^ard of the islands, rises to 

 a round hill 331 feet high, which shows conspicuously from the line 

 of the coast. Deadman cove, southwestward of this head, is open and 

 rocky. 



There are many shoals oft' the coast between John the bay and the 

 entrance to Mortier bay. Pig ledge, the northeastern, with 3^ fathoms 

 of water over it, bears 84°, distant lj% miles from John the Ba}'' 

 islands. Stickland rock, with 3^ fathoms of water over it, bears 110°, 

 distant 1^ miles from Rock harbor point. Sams ledge, with 15 feet 

 of water over it, bears 98°, distant 1 mile, and Point shoal, with 9 

 feet of water over it, bears 158°, distant nearly a mile, from the same 

 point. 



