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Bataille bank, having a rock with 2 fathoms of water over it at 

 its southern end, bears 115°, distant 1,400 j^ards from Leconte Point 

 lighthouse, and 50 yards northward of the line of the leading light- 

 houses through South channel. 



Gelin shoal, with 6 fathoms of water over it, bears 61°, distant 

 liV miles, and Les Cailloux au Chat, on which the depth is 8 fathoms, 

 bears 66°, 1,700 yards from Chasseurs island. Cat rock, with 5 

 fathoms of water over it, whose existence is doubtful, is stated to 

 bear 98°, distant 500 yards from Les Cailloux au Chat. 



Indre shoal, with 2 fathoms of water over it, bears 130°, distant 

 250 yards from cape Noir. 



Clearing marks. — Henry point, open northeastward of Les Ca- 

 nailles, bearing 302°, leads northeastward of all the above rocks, and 

 Blanche point, open southward of Chasseurs island, bearing 249°, 

 leads southward of them excepting Cat rock; the whole of Little 

 Harbor Head peninsula open of Chasseurs island, bearing 257°, leads 

 southward of the position assigned to that rock. 



Les Grappinots, over which the depth is 7 fathoms, bears 114°, 

 distant nearly 600 yards from Chasseurs island. 



Grappin shoal, with 4^ fathoms of water over it. bears 154°, 

 distant f mile from Chasseurs island. 



Clearing marks. — The lighthouse on Leconte point, open east- 

 ward of cape Noir, bearing 14°, leads eastward of Grappin shoal, and 

 the eastern point of Ravenel bay, open southward of Blanche point, 

 bearing 288°, leads southward of it. 



Anchorage. — Large vessels anchor in St. Pierre roadstead in 

 about mid-channel between lines drawn from the battery on the 

 northern point of Chien island to cape Aigie and from the eastern 

 point of Massacre islet to the mouth of the Courval river, in 7 to 15 

 fathoms of water. One of the port officers directs vessels where 

 to anchor. The telephone cable between cape Aigle and Trehouart 

 cove must be avoided. Vessels should moor. Northeasterly winds 

 blow right into the roadstead and cause the heaviest sea. 



Vessels should not proceed westward of the western limit of the 

 anchorage given above without local knowledge or a pilot. 



Mooring buoy. — A Avhite mooring buoy, for the use of vessels 

 of war, bears 206°, distant 634 yards from cape Aigle; other vessels 

 must not anchor near this buoy or make fast to it without permission 

 from the harbor master. 



Pilots. — By the harbor regulations it is compulsory for all ves- 

 sels except fishing craft to employ a pilot when entering and leaving 

 the port of St. Pierre, and payment will be required if a properly 

 distingiiished pilot offers his services, whether accepted or not. The 

 pilot boats are painted red and blue, and fly a blue flag. 



