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of water, but the holding ground is very bad, the bottom being 

 smooth rock. The best holding ground is well toAvard Fortune head 

 in 7 fathoms of water. At the western end of the village is a shallow 

 basin protected by two breakwaters, into which fishing vessels enter 

 after a quarter flood. 



Communication. — The steamers from St. Johns and Placentia 

 call at Fortune weekly during summer and autumn. 



Ice. — Fortune bay is very seldom frozen over, and the harbor is 

 always open. 



Jerseyma,n bank, the southern end of which is 6 miles westward 

 of Dantzic point, extends nearly 10 miles in a north and south direc- 

 tion and has on it depths ranging from 20 to 24 fathoms. 



Grand Bank head, 3:^ miles east-northeasterly from Fortune 

 head, is steep, and 187 feet high. Admiral cove, about 800 yards 

 southeastward of the head, affords anchorage in 5 to 10 fathoms 

 of water. 



Grand Bank village is situated on Bouilli point at 1 mile south- 

 eastward of the head ; there is anchorage off the village in 10 fathoms 

 of water. 



Light. — From a Avooden beacon, painted red and white in hori- 

 zontal bands, and 23 feet high, bearing 264°, distant 130 yards from 

 the end of the breakwater at Grand Bank, there is exhibited at 28 feet 

 above high water a fixed red light, which should be seen on southerly 

 bearings between 117° and 241°, a distance of 5 miles in clear 

 weather. 



Water can be obtained by sending a boat up Grand Bank brook 

 at high water. 



Ice. — Field ice appears at the end of February and leaves early in 

 April ; vessels arrive during the first week in March and leave toward 

 the latter end of December; this harbor was only frozen over twice 

 in 30 years. 



Tides. — It is high Avater, full and change, at Grand Bank at 8h. 

 48m. ; springs rise Ql feet, neaps 5| feet. 



Communication. — The steamers from St. Johns and Placentia 

 call at Grand Bank weekly during summer and autumn. 



Grand Beach point, eastward, lOj^ miles from Grand Bank head, 

 is a low projection covered with trees. Scott rock, Avith 4f fathoms 

 of water OA^er it, bears 309°, distant 1,300 yards from the point. 



Grand beach is situated at the head of a cove about | mile south- 

 eastward of the point. It is much frequented by A'essels of the her- 

 ring fishery during the spring season. 



White point, northeastward, 3| miles from Grand Beach point, 

 is bare granite; the shore of Fortune bay for 5 miles northeastward 

 ©f White point is fronted by rocks, known as Garnish rocks, extend- 



