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tions from it; there is no safe passage between it and the mainland 

 to the eastward. 



Directions. — For Culotte, from a position 400 yards northwest- 

 ward from Fhit ishmd steer 18° until Black rock bears 125°, distant 

 |- mile, observing that Pools island (low and wooded, in the north- 

 eastern arm of Cinq Cerf bay, and under Devil head, a steep bluff 280 

 feet high, that forms the northeastern entrance point to Culotte) just 

 open northward of the southeastern shore of Cinq Cerf bay, bearing 

 41°, leads close northward of the shoals off Black rock. Then steer 

 for Pools island, giving the southern shore of the bay a berth of 

 about 200 yards, and leaving Seal rocks (a cluster of flat rocks 8 feet 

 high, situated southward of a peninsula on which are two hills 115 

 and 117 feet high respectively, that forms the western entrance point 

 to Culotte) to the northward. Pass in mid-channel between Woody 

 island, which is separated b}^ a narrow channel from the eastern end 

 of the peninsula, and Pools island, and anchor in G to 8 fathoms 

 water, mud bottom, and good holding ground. 



Water can be taken from a brook at the northeastern corner of 

 Culotte, and wood is abundant. 



Bang's head, in the northwestern part of the northern shore of 

 Cinq Cerf bay, is a conspicuous dark wooded cone 188 feet high. 

 There is a white patch on the side of the hill at 4 mile eastward of 

 Baggs head, which is noticeable from a distance of 3 miles seaw^ard. 



Numerous islands and shoals extend southeastward of the head; 

 Woody island, open eastward of Seal rocks, bearing 45°, leads south- 

 eastward of them. 



Cinq Cerf brook, a considerable stream, which runs from many 

 miles inland, discharges its waters through a deep valley close west- 

 ward of Baggs head : it usually contains salmon and trout. 



Cinq Cerf islets lie eastward of the western entrance point to 

 Jinq Cerf bay. Their seaAvard coasts consist of steep gray cliffs. 

 The highest and soutliAvesternmost islet is 84 feet high, while Shag 

 islet, the northeasternmost, is a bare white rock 26 feet high. There 

 is a very small settlement round a cove in the mainland, close north- 

 westward of these islets. 



Big Sunker, the southwestern of a group of rocks lying off Cinq 

 Cerf islets, bears 284°. distant 1 mile from Flat island, and has 15 

 feet of water over it. Shag island, off Otter point, open soutliAvest- 

 ward of Flat island, bearing 100°, leads southward; Baggs head 

 well open southeastward of Shag islet. Cinq Cerf, bearing 7°, leads 

 eastward; and Baggs head open northwestward of Shag islet. Cinq 

 Cerf, bearing 26°, leads northwestward of this rock. 



Whittle hill, situated on the mainland at about 1,200 yards west- 

 northwestward of the western entrance i^oint of Cinq Cerf bay, is a 

 round hill 333 feet hieh. 



