244 CREW POINT TO CAPE RAY. 



North bay is shallow within its entrance, but anchorage may be 

 obtained just outside in 12 fathoms water, gravel bottom. A tele- 

 graph wire crosses the head of the bay. 



Bennet rock, with 12 feet of water over it, bears 112°, distant 

 400 yards from Vineyard islet, a small islet off the eastern point of 

 Broad cove, which is on the western shore of the bay at about If miles 

 within its entrance. 



Little bay, on the west shore and bearing north-northwestward 

 from the eastern entrance point of la Poile bay, extends inland 1^ 

 miles in a westerly direction, and affords anchorage, in a space about 

 350 yards across, off the fishing settlement in 10 fathoms water. 

 Bouys are placed for warping vessels to the wharves. 



Shoal. — A shoal, with 6^ fathoms of water over it, is said to lie 

 northeast of the settlement in Little bay; it has been unsuccessfully 

 searched for. 



Tooth rock, bearing 176°, distant 250 yards from Tooth head, 

 the northern entrance point of Little bay, has a depth of 2f fathoms 

 over it, and 5 to 10 fathoms close around. 



Anchorag-e may be obtained off the mouth of this bay in 15 fath- 

 oms of water, open to southerly winds, but Tooth rock limits the 

 anchoring space. 



Communication. — The Newfoundland railw^ay steamer from St. 

 Johns calls here weekly during summer and autumn, and there is a 

 post and telegraph office. 



Ice. — Little bay freezes occasionally in February, but the ice sel- 

 dom remains long. 



La Poile harbor, the entrance of which bears northwestward 

 from the eastern entrance point of la Poile bay, is 400 yards wide 

 and 1,700 yards long, as far as Pig island, which lies in mid-chan- 

 nel; beyond Pig island it extends southwestward for | mile in a 

 narrow arm to its head. 



This harbor affords anchorage in 11 fathoms of water at about 

 300 yards eastward of Pig island. There are a few houses on its 

 southern shore. 



Beacon. — A beacon stands on Beacon point, the southern entrance 

 point. 



Harbor rock, with 10 feet water over it, is on the outer part of 

 a shoal extending northward 200 yards from the southern shore, 

 just within the entrance; to clear this rock, keep the northern shore 

 aboard. 



Ice. — La Poile harbor freezes over about February 10, and the 

 ice disappears about March 20 ; although blocked at intervals, gener- 

 ally between March 1 and 20, navigation has not been impeded more 

 than six spring seasons during fifty years, and field ice rarely arrives, 

 but when forced in by southerly winds it becomes a serious obstruc- 



