182 ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON ISLANDS. 



A reef, which breaks, extends about 200 yards from Plate point, 

 the western end of Little Miquelon. 



Light. — A lighthouse on Plate point, 127 feet high, and painted 

 black and white in horizontal bands, exhibits, at IS-l feet above high 

 water, a flashing light having a period of four seconds, the duration 

 of the flash being one second. The light is Avhite except between the 

 bearings 155° and 163°, or over Seal rocks, where it is red, and it 

 should be seen from a distance 18 miles in clear weather. Within the 

 distance of 16 miles, a fixed light is visible between the flashes. 



Fog" sig'nal. — A siren, at about 27 yards southward of the light- 

 house, sounds twice about every minute, thus: — blast, four seconds; 

 silence, four seconds; blast, four seconds; silence, forty-eight seconds, 

 during thick weather, fog, or snowstorms. 



The mean distance the siren can be heard is 6 miles, but under cer- 

 tain conditions of the atmosphere it can be heard only 2 miles. 



The siren produces a trembling sound, and is shrill. If the siren 

 is disabled, a gun is fired at interA^als, but it is not fired while the 

 siren is sounding. 



La Bale, the passage between St. Pierre and Little Miquelon, is 

 deep and its shores are bold. 



Great Miquelon island is very irregular in outline, and its 

 hills reach a height of 813 feet. The northern part of the island is a 

 semicircular and hilly tongue of land, forming Miquelon road; cape 

 Miquelon, its northeastern end, is a steep cliff, 606 feet high and bold- 

 to. On the southern end of the tongue is a large settlement with a 

 prominent church ; in 1892 the population was 544. 



Light. — A lighthouse, 49 feet high, the lower part of which is 

 painted white, and the upper part black, with a white lantern, on 

 cape Blanc, the southwestern end of the northern part of Great 

 Miquelon, exhibits, at 103 feet above high water, a flashing light, 

 showing thus: Light, ten seconds; eclipse, fifty seconds. The light 

 is Avhite, except between the bearings, 34° and 57°, or over Seal rocks, 

 where it is red, and it should be seen from a distance of 16 miles in 

 clear weather. 



This light is obscured on southwesterly bearings by Calvary hills; 

 it is obscured southward of a line passing about 220 yards northward 

 of Chatte rocks, so that the light in sight leads nortliward of Outer 

 Miquelon and Chatte rocks, but the southern limit of visibility of the 

 light only just clears them ; the light is also obscured on northwesterly 

 bearings by the hills of Great Miquelon island. 



Rocks. — Seal rocks are two groups about ^ mile from each other ; 

 the highest, 18 feet high and situated in a direction 228°, distant 6^^ 

 n*iiles from cape Blanc, is steep-to around. 



Shoal. — A shoal, with 2^ fathoms water over it, bears 231°, distant 

 4 miles from cape Blanc. 



