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of February and the middle of March, and seldom remaining more 

 than a fortnight or three weeks. 



Fish islet, southward, 200 yards from the southwestern point of 

 Greenhill island, and the eastern of the islets extending eastward 

 from Grandy island, is 40 feet high. 



Fish Islet rock, bearing 108°, distant 200 yards from Fish islet, 

 has less than 6 feet of water over it. 



Short reach, extending westward about ^ mile into Grandy island, 

 with an average breadth of 300 yards, affords anchorage at its head 

 in 8^ fathoms of water, mud bottom, with swinging room for small 

 vessels. 



Smalls island is the southern of the group of islets and rocks off 

 the eastern coast of Grandy island, and between it and the island is a 

 good harbor for boats and small vessels, with 11 feet of water in it. 

 There is a flagstaff on the island. 



Rock — Beacon. — A rock, bearing 65°, distant 300 yards from 

 Furber point, the southern point of Grandy island, covers 1 foot at 

 high water. There is a beacon on it. 



Ship dock is a small cove westward of Furber point and between 

 that point and Franks island, around which are situated the wharves 

 and warehouses of the principal trading firm at Burgeo ; the agent's 

 double-storied house shows conspicuously from all directions, and 

 there is a flagstaff on Furber point. 



The water is deep close to the wharves, but the anchorage, in 13 

 fathoms water, is small; and care must be taken to avoid the small 

 rock eastward of Franks island and the shoal water off the channel 

 separating that island from the mainland. 



White g-round (Pylades rock) bears 220°, distant 865 yards 

 from the southeastern point of Fish islet, and has 13 feet of water 

 over it, with 20 fathoms at 100 yards to the southeastward. 



Two shoals, with depths of 4^ and 3 fathoms, respectively, lie be- 

 tween White ground and the rock off Furber point. 



Clearing mark. — The fall of the Sandbanks, open southward of 

 Furber point, bearing 252°, leads 100 yards southward of these 

 shoals. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage off Burgeo and southeastward of 

 Smalls island in 16 to 24 fathoms of water, mud bottom and good 

 holding ground, keeping the fall of the Sandbanks open southward 

 of Furber point, and Grip head open northward of Morgan island, 

 bearing about 266°, which latter mark leads just northward of the 

 rock with 9 feet of water over it, described on page 231. 



Mercer point, the southwestern end of Grandy island, is a bluff 

 dark point forming the southern point of Mercer cove, an inlet ex- 

 tending northwestward 800 j^ards into Grandy island. The cove 



