HARBOR BRETON^ — DIRECTIONS. 195 



The cliff fall of a hill, westward of the Barasway in Southwest 

 arm, just open southward of Jerseyman head, bearing 261°, leads 

 through the deepest part of the narrow channel over the bar, until 

 the harbor is open, when haul northeastward and anchor as con- 

 venient. 



The principal settlement is on the northwestern shore, where there 

 is a wharf. It is shoal alongside the wharf, but at a few feet distant 

 there is a depth of 5 fathoms. A lobster factory is situated on the 

 eastern shore. 



Northeast arm of Harbor Breton is bordered by steep cliffs, 

 and it affords no anchorage, except southward of the narrows, in 8 

 fathoms water, for small vessels. 



Southwest arm, or Harbor Breton proper, extends southwestward 

 160 yards, with a width of about 150 yards, to a bar of 12 feet water, 

 when it passes into a basin about 700 yards across, with depths of 4 

 to 10 fathoms. From the northern part of this basin, the Barasway, 

 a shallow arm where small craft lie in safety, trends northeastward 

 for about 1,800 yards. The largest settlement in Fortune bay is at 

 Harbor Breton. 



Light. — A cylindrical tower, 29 feet high and painted red and 

 white in horizontal bands, on Rocky point, the southeastern point of 

 Southwest arm, exhibits at 68 feet above high water a fixed white 

 light, which shoidd be seen from a distance of 9 miles in clear weather. 

 The light is obscured when bearing about 141° over Harbor rock. 



Harbor rock, with 2 J fathoms water over it, bears 28°, distant 200 

 yards from Thompson beach. 



Buoy. — A red warping buoy is moored about 100 yards north- 

 easterly from Harbor rock. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage in any part of the arm north- 

 eastward of the bar, but large vessels must anchor in about 17 fathoms 

 water, northward of Harbor Eock buoy, with a good scope of cable 

 out to prevent dragging with the heavy squalls that prevail with 

 strong breezes, even in summer. 



There is not room for many large vessels, as the water deepens 

 quickly to the northeastward. 



Mooring buoys. — Two red mooring buoys are placed in Harbor 

 Breton at about 30 yards from the wharf on Thompson beach. The 

 buoys lie close to the 3-fathom line of soundings and are 200 yards 

 apart on a line bearing northeasterly and southwesterly. 



Directions. — Entering Harbor Breton in a small vessel, pass 

 northward of the red warping buoy northward of Harbor rock, and 

 anchor in 10 fathoms water, mud and gravel bottom, in the middle 

 of the harbor between the red buoys off Thompson beach and the 

 north shore, with two long wooden whitewashed buildings with 

 black roofs on the southern shore bearing about 152°. 



