272 CAPE KAY TO CAPE BAULB. 



good anchorag-e may be found during offshore winds in 6 to 10 

 fathoms water, with, in places, a soft bottom. 



The summit of Robinson head open northward of Harbor head, 

 bearing 51°, leads northward to the shoal water in this cove. 



Highlands church, on the northeastern point of Plaster cove, is a 

 conspicuous white building with a small square tower, and bearing 

 325° from it, distant ^ mile from the shore, there is a small stony 

 patch of 3f fathoms, with 6 and 7 fathoms of water around it. 



The coast from Highlands church to Harbor head, northeastward 

 1 mile, is composed of clay cliffs, 65 to 100 feet high, fronted by a 

 stony beach. Behind the cliffs there is a flat wooded rise, the sum- 

 mit being 200 feet high. The country eastward of this consists of low 

 wooded ridges alternating with extensive and generally swampy 

 flats, through which flow several streams or brooks that rise in the 

 mountain ranges 12 to 14 miles inland. Good salmon pools exist in 

 all these streams. 



The coast for 1^ miles east-northeastward from Harbor head falls 

 a little, the cliffs giving place to low slopes, again succeeded by a 

 short stretch of cliff, 80 to 90 feet high, fronting which, to a distance 

 of 200 yards from the shore, are some detached bowlders and patches 

 of rock. 



River or Hig-hland brook, at the eastern end of these cliffs, is 

 rather more than 100 yards wide at its entrance, but not deep enough 

 to admit boats except at high water. About 2 miles from the entrance 

 this stream opens out to a small lake, which has a local reputation 

 for large trout. 



The coast from River brook to Crabb brook, northeastward 2 

 miles, is composed of low cliffs and steep slopes of sand and clay, 

 fronted by a stony beach. Off this are numerous bowlders, probably 

 deposited by ice, and ^ mile from River brook a prong of shoal 

 water, formed by some of the bowlders and detached rocky patches, 

 extends 600 yards from the shore, which sliould here be given a berth 

 of f mile. 



Crabb brook is nearly 400 yards wide between the heads forming 

 its mouth, but a stony spit projects 200 yards from the foot of the 

 hill op the western side. Banks of stones, that dry at, low water, 

 extend nearly across the entrance, leaving a narroAV. crooked channel, 

 in which there is only 1 foot at low water. 



Small vessels enter the river at high water and discharge at a 

 rough wharf on the eastern side. Abreast this the water quickly 

 shoals, and the space, that at high water appears extensive, is at low 

 water largely filled by dry banks of sand and stones. Three-quar- 

 ters of a mile within the entrance the bed of the stream is filled by 

 marshy flats, which become islands as the tide flows in little chan- 

 nels through them. These channels unite about f mile fartlier up. 



