238 CREW POINT TO CAPE EAY. 



Local knowledge is necessary to approach this settlement, or the 

 anchorage between it and the mainland northward of it, and only 

 vessels drawing 12 feet or less water can enter it from the eastward. 

 The flagstaiF of the settlement is all of it that is visible from seaward. 



Tides.- — It is high water, full and change, at Duck island, at 

 8h. 47m. ; springs rise 5^ feet, neaps 3^ feet ; neaps range 2f feet. 



Couteau Colombier, situated west-northwestward 1:^ miles from 

 Shag island, is a remarkable square-shaped rock 49 feet high, with a 

 low spur extending northeastward. On certain southeasterly bear- 

 ings it presents a resemblance to a human profile. 



Captain island, northward, 1:^ miles from Couteau Colombier, is 

 about f mile long in a northerly and southerly direction, ^ mile wide, 

 and it rises in two hillocks, the northern being 216 feet high. The 

 whiteness of the rock of this island where bare, and the darkness of 

 the vegetation which covers the remainder, are noticeable. Its fea- 

 tures are much diversified, and there is a white stripe on one of the 

 hills on its northern side. 



Rock and shoals extend westward 1,200 yards from this island. 

 The passage between it and the mainland northward is 200 yards 

 wide, with a depth of 4J fathoms water in the fairway. 



Anchorag'e.— Small vessels will find excellent anchorage in this 

 channel northward of the opening between Captain island and Duck 

 island, which are almost connected b}^ islands and rocks, taking care 

 to avoid Seal rocks, 1 foot above high water, which lie off the main- 

 land on the northern side of the channel. 



Couteau bay extends northward 2f miles to Couteau brook 

 entrance. The entrance to the bay is almost blocked by islets and 

 rocks, but there is one safe, though narrow, passage through them. 



Couteau Flat rocks, 6 and 10 feet high, respectively, and the south- 

 ernmost of those above water off Couteau bay, are surrounded by 

 submerged rocks and shoals for a short distance. Copped Duck rock, 

 197°, distant 1,300 yards from the 6 feet high Flat rock, and the outer 

 shoal off Couteau bay, has 5 fathoms water over it. Connoire head, 

 open southward of Shag island, bearing 85°, leads southward, and the 

 eastern end of the land on the northwestern shore of Couteau bay, 

 open westward of the 10 feet high Flat rock, bearing 9°, leads west- 

 ward of Copper Duck rock. 



Man rock, situated f mile northwestward of Flat rocks, is 3 feet 

 high ; and Black rock, 800 yards west-southwestward of Man rock, is 

 a black wedge-shaped rock 17 feet high. Shoals extend southward 

 and south-southeastward from Man rock, and a shoal, with 5 fath- 

 oms of water over it, bears 195°, distant 550 yards from Black rock. 



A rock in Couteau bay, bearing 35°, 1,350 yards from Man rock and 

 650 yards from the western shore of the bay, has 3 fathoms of water 

 over it. 



