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Rocks and foul ground lie off Fox island ; Fox Island rock, bearing 

 187°, distant 950 yards from the southeastern point of the island, is 18 

 feet high, and Fish Island shoal, bearing 236°, distant 1,100 yards 

 from the southwestern end of Fox island, has 5 fathoms of water over 

 it ; vessels should not navigate within this rock and shoal. 



Brimball Storehouse cove, 1-^tj miles westward from Fox island, 

 is a shoal inlet 500 yards long. 



A rock, bearing 225°, distant 250 yards from the eastern point of 

 Brimball Storehouse cove, has 4 feet of water over it. 



Bear head, the western point of Brimball Storehouse cove, is a 

 steep bluff, falling abruptly from its summit, 526 feet high, and 

 fringed by dark cliffs. There is deep water close to the head, but off 

 West point, at about 1,400 yards northwestward, is a pinnacle rock. 



Squier cove, northward of West point of Bear head, extends 

 eastward for 1,200 yards; it is deep, and affords no anchorage; a few 

 houses are situated near its head. 



Bear island is situated in the entrance to White Bear bay, and 

 northwestward ^^ mile from West point of Bear head; its summit is a 

 dark wooded cone 600 feet high, and the island falls steeply on the 

 southern and eastern, but gradually on the other sides. The eastern 

 and southern sides have deep water close to them. On the southern 

 side the cliffs are white and bare for some distance above the sea, while 

 the cliffs under Bear head are dark. 



Cul de sac harbor, on the western side of the southern part of 

 Bear island, is 1,200 yards long, with 16 to 20 fathoms water in it; an 

 islet lies northward of its southern entrance point, and a rock, awash 

 at high water with deep water close to, lies 100 yards southward of 

 that point. 



Cul de sac rocks are two heads with 4 feet of water over them, 

 bearing 296°, distant 800 yards from the southern entrance point of 

 Cul de sac harbor. 



Deer island, separated from the northern part of Bear island by 

 a narrow shallow channel, on both sides of which are a few houses, is 

 132 feet high. 



Anchorag-e. — There is fair anchorage, with southerly and easterly 

 winds, in 14 fathoms of water, at 300 yards westward of the islets off 

 Deer island, but a heavy swell rolls in with westerly winds. 



Seal island, bearing 11°, distant TOO yards from the northern 

 point of Bear island, is 85 feet high; and Round island, 329°, 1,300 

 yards from the same point, is 113 feet high. 



White Bear bay extends 10^ miles in a northerly direction from 

 the northern point of Bear island to the freshwater brook at its head, 

 with an average width of 1,200 yards. The shores are steep, in many 

 places precipitous, 700 to 1,000 feet high, with deep water close-to. 



