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Northwest island, 400 yards westward of Great island, is 1^% 

 miles long in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, about 900 

 yards broad, and has several peaks; Man-of-war hill, the highest, is 

 211 feet high, and there is a bowlder on its summit. 



Gull rock, 250 yards off the northwestern point, is 8 feet high, 

 round, bare, and joined to the shore by rocks and shoal water. 



A bank, with 6 fathoms least water over it, on which the sea breaks 

 in bad weather, bears 253°, distant ^ mile from Gull rock, and a rock, 

 awash at low water, lies 150 yards off the northern part of Northwest 

 head. 



Light. — A cylindrical lighthouse, 35 feet high and painted red 

 and white in spiral bands, with a white dwelling attached, on North- 

 west head, which is the southern point of Northwest island, exhibits 

 at 125 feet above high water, an intermittent white light showing 

 thus : Light, one and a half seconds ; eclipse, one and a half seconds, 

 which should be seen from a distance of 16 miles in clear weather 

 excepting on westerly bearings, where it is obscured by the land. 



Ramea Colombier island, distant 1 mile west-northwestward 

 from Northwest head lighthouse, is 135 feet high; it is one of the 

 western of the islands, makes as a cone from all directions, and is 

 surmounted by a flagstaff. 



Turr islets, .distant ^ mile west-northwestward from Ramea 

 Colombier, are two bare rocks, the eastern 29 feet and the western 

 about 10 feet high. 



Northward rocks, distant 400 yards in a northwesterly direction 

 from Eamea Colombier, are several black islets 12 feet high. A rock, 

 8 feet high, lies ^ mile west-northwestward of Ramea Colombier. 



The passage between these and the main islands is clear of shoals 

 in its fairway, but the water is comparatively shallow, and a heavy 

 confused sea rises when a strong breeze opposes the tidal stream. 



The channel between Northwest island and the rest of the group 

 is 200 yards wide, except off Ship cove and Muddy harbor, two small 

 bays on the southern end of Northwest island, where small vessels 

 anchor in 6 to 11 fathoms water, with 200 yards swinging room. 



The channel shoals graduallj^ from 11 fathoms at its western end 

 to 5 fathoms midway between Muddy harbor and Ship cove, then 

 suddenly to 15 feet off the eastern point of that cove. 



Southwest island, southward of the western end of Northwest 

 island, is about 80 feet high. Ramea harbor, on its eastern side, is 

 a good harbor for fishing craft. Southwest rocks extend westward 

 600 yards from the western point of Southwest island. Southward 

 of this island and these rocks are several shoals. 



Harbor island is much indented, and forms the northeastern side 

 of Ramea harbor. 



