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which is a basin 1,600 yards long and 300 yards wide, but it dries at 

 low water for 400 yards from the head. 



Vessels drawing 9 feet or less water lie afloat at low water close 

 inside the second narrows. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage for vessels of any size within 

 the outer part of Northwest arm over a space 1,600 yards long, and 

 nearly 800 yards broad, with depths of 5 to 9 fathoms, mud bottom, 

 and good holding ground. 



The eastern limit of the anchorage is a line drawn southward from 

 a point on the northern shore of the arm at ^ mile within the northern 

 entrance point, eastward of which line the bank falls rapidly to depths 

 of 30 and 40 fathoms. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Hare bay, at 8h. 38m. ; 

 springs rise 7 feet. 



Cul-de-sac, immediately westward of Western head of Hare bay, 

 is an open cove nearly 1 mile in length and 300 yards in width. 

 The head, which is very narrow for I mile and contains numerous 

 bowlders, has a few houses on its shores. 



The western entrance of Cul-de-sac is a sharp-pointed and rocky 

 hill, 724 feet high, terminated eastward by a low black rock. A rock 

 that uncovers lies close to it, and a shoal, with 3f fathoms water over 

 it, bears 129°, distant 200 yards from the black rock. 



Anchorag-e. — There is temporary anchorage for small vessels in 

 9 fathoms water, southeastward of the entrance to the head of the 

 cove, but, as a heavy sea soon rises with southeasterly and southerly 

 winds, they must leave on the first appearance of wind from those 

 directions. 



The coast from Cul-de-sac westward to Red point is cliffy and 

 intersected by deep ravines, and generally steep-to, while ranges that 

 attain heights of 1,000 to 1,500 feet extend inland. 



Numerous shoals extend east-southeastward from Red point, but 

 Red Point rock, bearing 112°, distant 650 yards from Red point, 

 with 4 fathoms of water over it, is the only one that is dangerous in 

 ordinary weather. 



In heavy weather this coast should not be approached nearer than 

 ^ mile, as there is then a confused sea over these shoals. 



Red point, about 3 miles westward from Western head of Hare 

 bay, is composed of red cliffs. 



Devil bay, the western entrance point of which lies f mile west- 

 ward of Red point, stretches in a northerly direction 2f miles, and 

 has deep water almost to its head, where there is anchorage for small 

 craft in 7 fathoms of water, close to the shore. Within the entrance 

 on either side is a waterfall; Blow-me-down, a steep bluff 1,280 feet 

 high, is on the western side at about 1,600 yards within the western 

 entrance point. 



