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ing ground, and violent squalls swee^) down the valley with strong 

 breezes from northwest to southeast, which are sufficient to cause 

 vessels to drag, though there is no sea. In emergency vessels can, 

 however, be secured to rocks on the shore. 



Shoal Point rock, bearing 174°, distant 200 yards from Lower 

 Shoal point, the western entrance point, has 4ri fathoms of water 

 over it. 



The coast westward of Richards harbor is cliif , colored alternately 

 red and gray, the red being very conspicuous in sunshine. A wedge- 

 shaped rock, 22 feet high, lies close to Upper Shoal point, at one mile 

 westward of Richards harbor, southwestward of which and distant 

 200 yards is a bank, with 5| fathoms water over it, that breaks in bad 

 weather. 

 Bear head is ^ mile westward of Upper Shoal point. 

 Horse brook, a remarkable waterfall, is situated in the cove next 

 westward of Bear head, and Mare fall, a wider but less elevated 

 stream, falls over the cliffs into a cove at 1^ miles farther westward. 



Several banks lie off' this coast, but none are dangerous except with 

 a very heavy sea. 



Hare bay, about 3^ miles westward of Bear head, extends north- 

 ward 4 miles, with an average breadth of ^ mile, when it expands in 

 two arms. Northwest arm affords the best anchorage on the southern 

 coast of Newfoundland. 



Bob Lock cove, on the eastern shore of Hare bay at 1^ miles from 

 the entrance, has anchorage for small vessels in 15 fathoms water 

 with good holding ground. The southern entrance point is a remark- 

 able round hill, 618 feet high, and cliffy to seaward. 



Water can be taken from a stream at the head of this cove. 

 Morgan arm, the eastern of the two branches at the head, is 1 

 mile in length, 600 yards in width, and divided near the head into 

 two shallow coves by low wooded projection. A large stream flows 

 into the eastern, and a waterfall descends into the western, of these 

 coves. 



Anchorage may be obtained, southward of the wooded projection, 

 in 5 to 8 fathoms water. 



Northwest arm, extends northwestward 1^ miles to the first nar- 

 rows, the northeastern side of which is Sandy point, a shingle spit, 

 drying at low water, 100 yards from the trees. 



The passage through the narrows is only 100 yards wide, with a 

 depth of 7 fathoms in the middle, but within is a bay nearly 800 

 yards wide, with depths less than 3 fathoms at 300 yards, and less 

 than 6 feet at 600 yards, distant, respectively, northwestward of the 

 narrows. 



Small craft, however, proceed over this bar at high water and 

 through a second narrows, 1,600 yards distant from the first, within 



