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Communication. — The Newfoundland Railway steamer from St. 

 Johns calls at Harbor Breton weekly during summer and autumn; 

 there is a telegraph station at the settlement. 



Ice. — Harbor Breton is sometimes closed by field ice; during a 

 period of thirty years it has only been unavailable to the mail steamer 

 on three occasions. The field ice appears toward the end of Febru- 

 ary and leaves about March 25, the first vessels arriving at the end 

 of April and the last leaving about the middle of December. The 

 outer anchorage freezes over about the beginning of January, and 

 harbor ice disappears about the middle of April. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Harbor Breton at 

 8h. 52m. ; springs rise 7 feet, neaps 5^ feet ; neaps range 4 feet. 



Deadman bight. — The shore westward of Harbor Breton is foul 

 and rocky, forming a bay named Deadman bight, and there are sev- 

 eral patches off Harbor Breton entrance, on some of which the sea 

 breaks in gales. 



Offer rock, with 12 feet water on it, and the southern of a group 

 of rocks, bears 214°, distant 1,700 yards from Gull island, which is 

 situated about 400 yards offshore at a distance of 1^ miles westward 

 from Western head, the western entrance point of Harbor Breton; 

 the beach of Saltwater cove, which is southward of Jerseyman har- 

 bor, open southward of Western head, bearing 58°, leads i mile 

 southward of Offer rock. 



Connaigre head, cliffy, bold, and 310 feet high, is the termination 

 of a long promontory forming the western side of Deadman bight 

 and the southeastern side of Connaigre bay. 



Connaigre rock, Avith 1| fathoms of water over it, bears 200°, 

 distant 3 miles from Connaigre head. 



Connaigre bay. — Basse-terre point bears 283°, distant 8 miles 

 from Connaigre head, and Connaigre bay extends northeastward 14 

 miles from between them ; it contains several islets and inlets. 



Shag rocks, 24 feet high, lie in the middle of the mouth of the 

 bay ; in using the channel northward of them observe that a ledge of 

 rocks extends 1 mile from the northern shore. Black rock, 1 foot 

 high, lies ^ mile southwestward of Shag rocks. 



Clearing mark. — Seal island, well open southward of Basse-terre 

 point, bearing 283°, leads close southward of Black rock. 



Great Harbor bight, on the southeastern side of the bay at 5 

 miles northeastward of Connaigre head, is clear of shoals; there is 

 anchorage in 10 fathoms water, at 400 yards from its head, but it is 

 entirely open to southwesterly winds. 



Great harbor is within Will island, 310 feet high, which lies on 

 the northwestern side of Great Harbor bight entrance, with no pas- 

 sage between it and the mainland. To enter, pass southward of this 

 island, and near the eastern shore of the harbor. 



