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Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Ship cove at 8h. 36m. ; 

 springs rise 7^ feet, neaps 5| feet ; neaps range 3-| feet. 



A stream runs through the narrow channels of Despair bay and 

 Conne river, but it rarely attains the rate of 1 knot an hour. 



Head of Despair bay. — Northward of Ship cove the northeastern 

 arm of Despair bay narrows to the breadth of ^ mile, and is clear of 

 shoals, except off Clarke cove, the first bight eastward of the narrows, 

 where a bank, with less than 8 fathoms water over it, extends to the 

 line of the points. 



A rock that dries 3 feet lies close to the eastern shore, at |- mile 

 northeastward of the narrows. 



Swagg'er cove, on the western shore, is immediately northwest- 

 ward of the narrows, and dries to its mouth at low water. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage, in 5 fathoms, on a bank extend- 

 ing eastward from the cove. 



. Weasel islet consists of two rocks, the higher 5 feet high, joined 

 together and to the southern shore of the bay, from which they are 

 100 yards distant, at low Avater, situated northeastward If miles from 

 Eads point, the southern entrance point of Swagger cove. 



Several conspicuous white houses stand on a spit immediately 

 southwestward of this islet, from which shoal water extends 200 yards 

 to the depth of 3 fathoms. Northward of Weasel islet there is a 

 good salmon and sea trout river, and deer may be obtained in the 

 vicinity. 



Telegraph station. — There is a telegraph station of the Anglo- 

 American Company northeastward If miles from Weasel islet. 



Landing". — Deepwater point, about 800 yards northwestward of 

 the station, and just southward of the southernmost garden visible, is 

 the only landing place at low water for the station, as the bay dries 

 ^ mile from the mouth of Southeast brook, a considerable stream, 

 close southeastward of the station. 



Anchorage. — The western limit of the anchorage at the head 

 of Despair bay is with the eastern entrance point of Cock and Hen 

 cove, bearing 331°, in 5^ fathoms of water, with 20 fathoms close 

 westward. From this line the depths decrease gradually, the deepest 

 water being nearer the northern shore. 



Bois island, dividing the southern part of the northeastern arm 

 of Despair bay into two channels, is 8 miles long and 2 miles wide 

 at its broadest part; its summit is a barren hill, 664 feet high, about 

 800 yards within the middle of its northern coast. 



Flobber Cove islet, 15 feet high, lies close off the southeastern 

 coast at about 1| miles from Dawson point, and there are two rocks 

 that cover at high water, eastward of that islet, the eastern being 

 distant 100 yards. 



