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iiiaiiilaiid. Halibut rock is awash at low water and there is shoal 

 water between it and Shag island. 



Barachois rock, bearing 329°, distant 1 mile from Halibut rock, 

 and nearl}^ the same distance offshore, has 9 feet of water over it. 



Snook bank, bearing 212°, distant | mile from Cape Ray light- 

 house, has 6 fathoms of water over it. 



Signal and telegraph station. — A signal and telegraph station 

 is situated in a cove a little more than 1 mile eastward of cape Ray. 

 (See p. 66.) 



Cape Ray, the southwestern extremity of Newfoundland, is about 

 50 to 160 feet high, but at about 3 miles north-northeastward of it 

 Table mountain rises abruptly to the height of 1,700 feet. Cook 

 stone, 1,570 feet high, is a small peak at the southwestern end of the 

 mountain and at about i% i^^i^^ farther southwestward is Sugarloaf 

 hill, conspicuous, conical, and 800 feet high. Two smaller conical 

 hills lie between Sugarloaf hill and the sea. 



Light. — A white octagonal tower with a red lantern, 75 feet high 

 at -217 yards within the western extreme of cape Ray, exhibits at 

 127 feet above high water a flashing white light, which shows one 

 group of three flashes every fifteen seconds, and should be seen from 

 a distance of 17 miles in clear weather. 



A white dwelling and outbuildings, with red roofs, are situated 

 near the lighthouse. 



Fog signal. — A diaphone horn, worked by compressed air, at a 

 fog signal house situated on the shore at cape Ray, gives one blast 

 of five seconds' duration every minute during thick weather, fog, 

 and snowstorms. The fog signal house is a white building with a 

 red roof and a liigh brick chimney. 



Wireless telegraph station. — A wireless telegraph station has 

 been established at Cape Ray lighthouse by the government of Canada 

 and it is operated for the Marine and Fisheries Department of the 

 Dominion by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited. 

 (See p. 42.) 



Ice report station. — Information as to the weather, wind, move- 

 ment and condition of the ice can be obtained during April and May 

 by communicating with the signal station on cape Ray. 



Brandies rock, bearing 277°, distant 1 mile from Cape Ray light- 

 house and 1,J:00 yards offshore, is about 50 yards in diameter and 

 nearly awash at low water ; the sea breaks on it. 



Shag ledge, northwestward f mile from Cape Ray lighthouse, and 

 close to the shore, is a small, roekj islet. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, at cape Ray at 9h. 15m. ; 

 springs rise 6 feet, neaps 4 feet. 



St. Paul island, in Cabot strait, the main entrance to the gulf of 

 St. Lawrence, between the southwestern extremitv of Newfoundland 



