230 CREW POINT TO CAPE BAY. 



A bank, with 8 fathoms of water over it, lies with the eastern end 

 of Venils island bearing 270°, distant 750 yards. 



Baggs island, on the western side of Venils island and separated 

 from it by a narrow, shallow channel available for boats at low 

 water, is a barren island with a peaked smnmit, 160 feet high. A 

 rock, awash at low water, lies about 50 yards westward of its western 

 point. 



Rencontre island, southwestward 300 yards from Baggs island, 

 is the highest of the Biirgeo group; its western end rises to a con- 

 spicuous truncated cone, 269 feet high, covered with dark foliage. 



Gull island, situated ^ mile eastward of Rencontre island, is a 

 bare rock 50 feet high, and steep-to on its eastern side, but foul 

 ground extends 150 yards off its western side. 



A rock, about 6 feet high, lies 150 yards northwestward of Gull 

 island, and a slioal, with 13 feet of w^ater over it, between the end of 

 the foul ground southwestward of Gull island and Rencontre rock. 



Rencontre rock, bearing 102°, distant 350 yards from the south- 

 ern point of Rencontre island, has 7 feet of water over it. 



Musket islets are two rocks about 40 yards apart in a northerly 

 and southerly direction, the northern and higher, 32 feet high, bear- 

 ing 202°, distant 450 yards from the southern point of Rencontre 

 island. 



Bearing 301°, 200 yards from Musket islets, and between them and 

 Little Rencontre rocks, is a shoal, with 4 fathoms water over it and 

 steep-to. 



Little Rencontre island, about 150 yards southwestward of the 

 western end of Rencontre island, is dark, conical, and 150 feet high, 

 and shows a saddle-shaped summit on easterly bearings; Little Ren- 

 contre rocks are about 400 yards southeastward of the island. 



Crocker island, northwestward about 80 yards from Little Ren- 

 contre island, is 90 feet high, of a gray color, and steep-to, except off 

 its northern end, from which a shoal, with 6 feet of water over it, 

 extends 50 yards. 



White island, northward 200 yards from Crocker island and 

 northwestward 350 yards from the northwestern end of Rencontre 

 island, is 45 feet high, and being white it is conspicuous when seen 

 against the larger islands. 



Beacon. — On the summit of White island is a pyramidal wooden 

 beacon. 



Morg-an island, the northeastern end of which lies westward 

 distant nearly i% mile from Boar Island lighthouse, is about 1,400 yards 

 long in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, 350 yards wide, 

 138 feet high, moss-covered and undulating. 



Shoal water fringes its northern and northwestern coast ; the south- 

 western coast is bold-to ; the southern coast is encumbered with rocks 



