MUDDY HOLE POINT^OTTER POINT SETTLEMENT. 237 



Water. — A good stream flows into the head of Billiard cove. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Billiard cove, Connoire 

 bay, at 8h. 40m. ; springs rise 5f feet, neaps 4 feet ; neaps range 3 feet. 



Muddy Hole point is the end of a conical hill 97 feet high, and 

 the apparent southern termination of a ridge extending from a hill 

 with a sharp peak 246 feet high, which bears 34°, distant Ij^ miles 

 from the point, and slopes northwestward to Gull pond, a salt-water 

 lagoon. Cow-house hill, northward about 2 miles from Gull pond, 

 is 855 feet high, and the highest land near the sea in this locality. 

 Eound hill, northward about '2^ miles from Muddy Hole point, is 570 

 feet high. Rocks extend southeastward and southward 800 yards 

 from Muddy Hole point; the summit of Baring island in line with 

 the southern end of Wreck island, bearing 99°, leads southward of 

 them. 



Muddy Hole bay is open southward, and has a small boat cove in 

 its northeastern corner. 



Anchorag'e. — The bay affords open anchorage with offshore winds 

 in 11 to 12 fathoms water, but the holding ground is not good. 



Otter point, the western entrance point of Muddy hole, rises to 

 a round hill 137 feet high; Trimming hill, immediately within the 

 point, is a small cone 37 feet high. 



Two shoals, with 3 fathoms of water over them, bear 118°, distant 

 665 and 950 yards, respectively, from the point. 



The Painter, a rock bearing 149°, distant | mile from Otter point, 

 almost dries at low water, but often it is not marked by a breaker. 

 The w^estern house on the shore of the boat cove at the head of Muddy 

 Hole bay in line with the passage between, a small islet, 20 feet high, 

 and the eastern shore of that bay, bearing 9°, leads eastward; and 

 the southern end of Couteau Colombier in line with Winging rock, 

 the first black rock northward of Shag island, bearing 279°, leads 

 southward of the Painter. 



Shag" island, 1 mile southward of Otter point and the southern- 

 most of a chain of islands and rocks extending from that point, is a 

 conspicuous white rock 42 feet high. Numerous sunken patches lie 

 westward of Shag island; Colombier shoal, bearing 246°, distant ly^ 

 miles from the summit of Shag island, is the southern of them, and 

 there is a depth of 6 feet of water over it. This shoal was formerly 

 known as Comus rock, and the present local corruption of the name 

 is Clumpy shoal. 



Clearing" marks. — The western entrance point of Connoire bay 

 open southward of Shag island, bearing 59°, leads southward, and 

 the southeastern end of Captain island in line with Couteau Colom- 

 bier, bearing 9°, leads westward of Colombier shoal. 



Otter Point settlement, with a population of about 50, is situated 

 on the northern side of Duck island, a small island at the head of a 

 rugged bight immediately northwestward of Ottpr point. 



