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Hare's Ears point, bearing 80°, leads southward of Hare's Ears 

 rock. 



Lance cove, northwestward of Hare's Ears point, is 1,200 yards 

 wide and 1,000 yards long. It has anchorage for small vessels, open 

 to southeasterly winds, in 3 to 6 fathoms of water at 250 yards from 

 the beach. 



Lance cove promontorj^, on the southern side of Lance cove, is 250 

 feet high, and its coasts are steep cliffs ending southeastward in a 

 sharp point, named the bill of Lance cove. 



Chaleur bay. — Gull island lies about 1,600 yards westward of the 

 bill of Lance cove, and AVest point bears 219°, distant 1,400 yards from 

 the island. The entrance of Chaleur bay is between Gull island and 

 West point, and thence the bay extends northwestward, with one 

 bend, for 5^ miles. At its inner entrance, about 1.200 yards within 

 Gull island, the bay is 600 yards wide, but it expands to 1,200 yards 

 inside, and then narrows gradually toward the head. 



Gull island is white and 102 feet high. Shooter rock, close to the 

 northern shore at 1^ miles westward of Gull island, is 2 feet high. 



Cooper cove is on the western shore at 2| miles within Gull island. 

 A brook, that drains a deep valley, flowing into Cooper cove, has 

 formed a sandy beach, off which, at 300 yards distance, there is 

 anchorage for small A^essels in 9 to 14 fathoms of water. There is a 

 similar cove opposite on the eastern shore, but without anchorage. 



Anchorage can be obtained, at 600 to 1,200 yards distance from 

 the head of the bay, in 6 to 15 fathoms of water, mud bottom. 



Water and wood are easily procured. 



Fransway bay, also known at Francois bay, is an inlet extending 

 1^ miles north-northwestward, 400 yards wide, and surrounded by 

 steep bluffs, situated 1,800 yards southwest ward of West point of 

 Chaleur haj. A brook flows into its head, and the settlement is 

 eastward of the brook and under the Friar, a cliffy hill 680 feet high, 

 with landslips extending to the sea. 



Anchorage. — -There is anchorage, in 14 to 22 fathoms of water, 

 within 400 yards of the head of the bay. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Fransway bay at 

 8h. 40m. ; springs rise 6| feet, neaps 4^ feet. 



The coast. — Southwestward of West point of Fransway bay is 

 Brandy cove, the western entrance point of which is Brandy head, a 

 gray, conical-shaped promontory, 278 feet high. Between Brandy 

 head and Nick Power point, at 1,200 yards farther southwestward, is 

 a cove faced by steep cliffs. 



Nick Power point is the southern end of an isolated headland, 

 216 feet high, terminating in rugged points, with breakers 100 yards 

 off its southAvestern end. 



