BRIAND SHOAL OUTER MIQUELON ROCK. 183 



Briand shoal, with 13 I'eet of water over it and 11 fathoms 

 around, is very small in extent and bears 203°, distant 2^^ miles from 

 cape Blanc. 



Caution. — The channel between Seal rocks and Great Miquelon 

 island should not be used for navigation, as it has not been properly 

 examined. 



Cliatte rocks, 5 to 8 feet high, are situated on a shoal whicli^ 

 stretches northeastward about 1,200 yards from a point on the south- 

 ern side of Miquelon road situated a little more than ^ mile north- 

 ward of Chapeau de Miquelon, a conical hill, 374 feet high. 



Buoy. — A black buoy is moored in 19 feet near the outer end of 

 Chatte Eocks shoal. 



Miquelon rocks comprise a group of rocks on a shoal spit extend- 

 ing northeastward 1^ miles from the land at ^ mile southward of Sol- 

 dier point, which is southeasterly 5 miles from Miquelon road. The 

 eastern and highest rock is nearly 1^ miles from the point, about 10 

 feet high, and steep-to on its eastern side. 



Patracan shoal, with 7^ fathoms of water over it, bears 67°, dis- 

 tant 2^ miles from Soldier point. 



Landry bank, with l-]- fathoms of water over it, bears 97°, dis- 

 tant 2^ miles from Soldier point. 



Outer Miquelon rock, with 10 feet water over it, is the north- 

 eastern shoal off Soldier point, and bears 33°, distant 2f miles from 

 the eastern Miquelon rock. A shoal, with 7^ fathoms water over it, 

 lies about 800 yards southwestward of Outer INIiquelon rock. 



Anchorages. — There is anchorage in Miquelon road with winds 

 from north, through west, to south, in 6 fathoms of water, off the 

 settlement, with fair holding ground. 



There is also open anchorage eastward of the long shingle beach 

 which joins Great Miquelon and Little Miquelon islands. The best 

 place is off the northern coast of Little Miquelon in 6^ fathoms water, 

 near a cove just southeastward of the gens d'armes station. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Miquelon roads at 

 8h. 33m. ; mean rise about d^ feet. 



Climate.— In St. Pierre and Miquelon islands the winters are long 

 and severe, and the summers short and cool; the mean annual tem- 

 perature is about 40° Fahrenheit; the annual rainfall is 40 to 48 

 inches, and fog prevails on an average for one hundred days in the 

 year. 



