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that covers 1 foot at high water, bears 248°, distant 950 yards from 

 the western island, and there is a depth of 30 fathoms at 100 yards 

 westward of it. 



The coast from Gulch cove trends west-southwestward for 4^ miles 

 to Little river, and is bold and steep. 



Seal rocks, southeasterly, distant 1,200 yards from Little river 

 entrance, are 18 feet high, and are not easily made out against the 

 dark coast. A rock, awash at low water, lies 100 yards northeast- 

 ward from Seal rocks. 



Two rocks, about 5 feet high, lie between Seal rocks and the eastern 

 entrance point to Little river and about 200 yards offshore. 



Little river is a long inlet, with an entrance about 130 yards 

 wide. It continues of that width northeastward for 1,200 yards to 

 Jerts cove, when it expands to 600 yards, with excellent anchorage in 7 

 to 10 fathoms water; mud bottom. Again narrowing to about 150 

 yards northeastward of Jerts cove the channel extends northeasterly 

 for 1^ miles to Frenchman cove, a fine basin Ij^ miles long in an 

 easterly and westerly direction, and ^ mile broad, with good anchor- 

 age in 5 to 9 fathoms water ; mud bottom. At the eastern end of this 

 cove Little river divides into two branches. Southeast and Northeast 

 arms. 



Small vessels should not leave Little river when the wind is against 

 the tidal stream, as a confused sea soon gets up. 



Southeast arm extends eastward 3 miles, with a general width 

 of 600 yards, and has good anchorage in 7 to 8 fathoms of water for 

 the first mile, when the arm widens, and deepens to over 37 fathoms; 

 then grows gradually shallower and narrower to the head. A shoal, 

 with 3^ fathoms water over it, lies a short distance off the southern 

 shore at about 2 miles distant from the head. 



Northeast arm trends northerly for f mile and then north-north- 

 easterly for 4 miles. It has a depth of about 4 fathoms for the first 

 mile, when it becomes more shallow. 



Northwest arm branches off, in a northerly direction, from North- 

 east arm at 1^ miles from its western entrance point. The depths in 

 Northwest arm are from 4 fathoms to 1^ fathoms near its head. 



The shores of Little river are steep and bold, in many places falling 

 precipitously from hills 750 to 1,000 feet high. Avoid the debris 

 from the hills quite close to the shore. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, at Little river at 8h. 

 40m. ; springs rise 6:^ feet, neaps 4 feet. The tidal streams run in the 

 direction of the channel and attain a rate of 2 knots an hour at 

 springs. 



Little River rocks, southward, distant 6 miles from Little River 

 entrance, are 4 feet high and steep-to on the southern side, but a fringe 

 of shoal water extends northwestward 200 yards from them. 



