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western part of the harbor, and a bank extends eastward 250 yards 

 from its mouth. 



Buffetts island, southward 900 yards from Kings Head point, is 

 91 feet high, and a ledge of rock runs parallel to, and 100 yards 

 from, the northern side of the island, with a depth of 6 feet between 

 them. Aldridge head, the eastern point of Greenhill island, bears 

 204°, distant 600 yards from the southwestern point of the island. 



Anchorag'e. — There is fair anchorage northwestward of Buffetts 

 island, in 13 fathoms water, sand bottom, but a swell rolls in with 

 strong southerly winds. 



Grip island is westward ^ mile from Buffetts island, and there is 

 a rock, with less than 6 feet of water over it, about 200 yards south- 

 eastward of its southern end. 



The Ha ha is an inlet stretchmg 1 mile in a westerlj^ direction 

 to the northward of Aldridge and Richards heads, and it is clear till 

 within 100 yards of its head, near which there is anchorage for small 

 vessels in 10 to 12 fathoms water, but exposed to easterly winds. 



Greenhill island, on the southern side of the Ha ha, is 280 feet 

 high. 



Richards head, on the mainland westward of Greenhill island, is 

 a remarkable saddle-topped hill, 340 feet high, with steep cliffs on its 

 southwestern side, and dark foliage on the others. It is an ex- 

 cellent mark. 



Aldridge rock, bearing 144°, distant 250 yards from Aldridge 

 head, is awash at high water. There is a depth of 48 fathoms at 

 200 yards eastward of it, but only 6^ fathoms of water between it 

 and the head. 



Grandy island, west-southwestward about 1,400 yards from 

 Greenhill island, is rugged and barren; it is separated from the 

 mainland by Long reach, a narrow strait, whose eastern entrance, 

 southward of Greenhill island and Richards head, is shallow, and 

 whose western entrance is spanned by a bridge. 



Burgeo is a considerable village on the eastern side of Grandy 

 island ; it has several conspicuous houses, and a wooden church with 

 a short spire. 



Communication. — The Newfoundland Railway steamer from St. 

 Johns calls here weekly during summer and autumn. 



There is a telegraph station at Burgeo. 



Supplies can generally be obtained at Burgeo in small quantities, 

 and water from bay de Loup. 



Ice. — Burgeo port is never frozen over, but it is occasionally 

 blocked for a few days by ice from the outer coves, which moves off 

 in February and March ; vessels come and go all the year. Northern 

 ice appears only at intervals, arriving generally between the middle 



