268 CAPE RAY Tt) CAPE BAULD. 



Tides and tidal streams. — It is high water, full and change, at 

 Codroy road at 9h. Om. ; springs rise 4^ feet, neaps 3 feet. The flood 

 tidal stream generally sets northward, and the ebb southward; fre- 

 quently there are heavy rips between Codroy and cape Ang-uille, 

 and, during stormy weather, there is nearly always a heavy confused 

 sea in this locality. 



Codroy island, 1,200 yards long in a northerly and southerly 

 direction, and 400 yards wide, is 36 feet high, and covered with grass. 

 It lies about 400 yards off the mainland, and shoals, with less than 3 

 fathoms water over them, extend about ^ mile from its northern and 

 southern ends. A bank of stones extends northward from a point 

 on its eastern side, and, with a similar ridge extending southeastward 

 from the northeastern end of the island, forms a small harbor fairly 

 well sheltered in westerly winds. Here numerous fishing vessels 

 occasionally anchor. 



Codroy village is situated on Beach point, a stony spit, and on the 

 rising ground behind it, immediately northeastward of the middle 

 of the island; landing can generally be effected on the western side 

 of Beach point, sheltered by the island and the shallow bar extending 

 between its northern end and the mainland. 



A little southeastward of the village is the church, a large white 

 building, w^ithout tower or spire, conspicuous from seaward. The 

 population of this locality is about 500. 



Supplies. — Small supplies of fresh meat can occasionally be 

 obtained. 



Communication. — A steamer from Halifax and Sydney, Cape 

 Breton island, calls here monthly during simimer; and there is com- 

 munication with Great Codroy by road. 



The coast between Codroy island and cape Anguille, about 2^ 

 miles northward, rises steeply to the western termination of the An- 

 guille range. The higher portions of these slopes are covered with 

 trees, but the lower portions show extensive clearings made by the 

 settlers ; the contrast between these clearings, with their large patches 

 of dead timber, and the dark foliage of the trees above, and in some 

 cases below them, is conspicuous from seaward. 



Between the foot of the slope and the sea is a narrow strip of fiat 

 land, dotted here and there with the settlers' cottages, and immedi- 

 ately soutliAvard of cape Anguille is Shoal point, a small village. 



Cape Anguille rises steeply from the sea to a sharp summit, 615 

 feet high, then the land within it, forming a small hollow, rises again 

 to the range of high hills. The faces of the slopes on the western 

 and southwestern sides of the cape have been cleared and are covered 

 with grass and dead stumps of trees; but the northeastern side, and 

 also the summit, are thicklv wooded. 



