160 CAPE EACE TO CREW POINT. 



Rock harbor has numerous rocks in it and is only available for 

 fishino- craft; a considerable settlement surrounds the harbor, and the 

 church, a white building, stands near its head. 



The coast from Rock harbor to the entrance of Mortier bay, nearly 

 2 miles southwestward. is dark cliff backed by wooded hills and is 

 steep-to. The turning point shows as an overhanging cliff, and shoals 

 lie nearly ^ mile off it. 



Mortier bay is entered through a channel 1^ miles long and ^ 

 mile Avicle, at the northern end of which the bay opens to nearly 2 

 miles across, with deejD water and no anchorage except in the harbors 

 and coves off it, 



Saul islands are close off' the eastern entrance point. The south- 

 ern, 70 feet high, bare and gTay, is conspicuous against the dark back- 

 ground on northerly bearings; shoal water extends a short distance 

 ?outhward from the western island. 



Skiff-sail rock, with 6 feet of water on it, bears 93°, distant 

 1,000 yards, and Saul Island rock, also with 6 feet of water over it, 

 bears 124°. distant 400 yards from the southern Saul island. 



Thomas rock, on which the depth is 4^ fathoms, bears 124°, 

 distant 1 mile from the southern Saul island. 



Big" head, the inner entrance point into Mortier bay on the 

 western side, is 437 feet high, and rises in steep cliffs from the chan- 

 nel and eastward, but in a gradual slope northward and westward. 



Goolds cove, a slight indention with a sandy beach, around 

 which are a few houses, lies just within the entrance on the eastern 

 side. 



Spanish Room harbor, where there is a settlement, is at the 

 northeastern corner of the bay. 



Rocks lie off the Avestern side of the entrance ; they are steep-to, and 

 the highest is 5 feet high. The eastern shore is foul for 200 j^ards 

 off the cove immediately within the entrance; and at 800 yards 

 within a spit, with 13 feet water on it, extends 400 yards from the 

 western shore. 



Anchorage. — Anchor in of fathoms of water, mud bottom, before 

 reaching the spit, where there is swinging room 800 yards long and 

 600 3^ards broad. 



Water. — A considerable stream, spanned by a bridge, flows into 

 the eastern side of the harbor. 



Cashel cove, just northwestward of the peninsula forming Span- 

 ish room, affords anchorage in 6 to 10 fathoms of water, mud bottom, 

 sheltered from all but southerly to westerly winds. 



Cashel lookout, a hill 615 feet high, and surmounted by a bowlder, 

 lies 1^ miles inland northward of Cashel cove ; it is conspicuous and 

 is visible from Placentia bav. 



