BAY LE MOINE SHARK COVE HEAD. 249 



Bay le Moine entrance is west-southwestward about 2^ miles from 

 Seal Island head, and the bay extends north-northeastward 4 miles ; 

 there is good anchorage at its head. 



Petites is a considerable settlement situated round the basins 

 formed by a group of islands and rocks at the eastern entrance point 

 of bay le Moine. 



These basins are suitable for small vessels only, which moor to the 

 wharves; local pilotage knowledge is required. 



Black rock, the southernmost of the group, is 4 feet high, and 

 lies 300 yards southward of Gull island, which is 33 feet high, and 

 covered with grass over red rock. 



Black Rock shoal, bearing 235°, distant nearly 400 yards from 

 Black rock, has 3 fathoms of water over it. 



Major rock, bearing 292°, distant 600 yards from the summit of 

 Gull island, is a very sharp pinnacle, with 6 feet of water over it, 

 and deep water clo* around ; it does not often break. 



Fish head, the western entrance of bay le Moine, is a steep bluff 

 at the southwestern end of a hill which is 231 feet high, and faced 

 by gray cliff. 



The Friar, close off the land at 600 yards northeastward of the 

 head, is an isolated pillar rock. 



Dublin cove, northward of the eastern part of the hill forming 

 Fish head, is 300 yards wide at its entrance, and narrows gradually 

 to its head. It is clear of shoals except close to its head. 



Dublin Cove rocks, 100 yards northeastward of the eastern entrance 

 point of Dublin cove, are 2 feet high and small; they may be ap- 

 proached to 100 yards. 



Anchorage. — Small vessels can anchor in Dublin cove, in from 

 22 fathoms at the entrance, to 6 fathoms water off a small islet at 

 the head. 



Bay le Moine rock, bearing 53°, distant ^ mile from the eastern 

 entrance point of Dublin cove, and nearly in the middle of the bay, 

 has 4 feet least water over it. 



The Red house, close to the northern shore of bay le Moine, at 

 nearly -^^ mile within the eastern entrance point of Dublin cove, 

 is a conspicuous rock, 20 feet high, and faced by red cliff; at one 

 mile farther in on the same shore, is a waterfall just westward of a 

 red point; a shoal extends a short distance from this point. 



Water can be taken from the fall or the streams at the head of 

 the bay at high water. 



Harbor le Cou lies westward of Fish head, and consists of a cove 

 to the southwest, and a basin to the northeast. A settlement of some 

 225 people is situated round the southwest cove. 



Shark Cove head, northwestward, 550 yards from Fish head 

 and close eastward of the entrance, rises to a conspicuous sharp hill, 



