284 CAPE BAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



A heavy ground swell usually indicates strong westerly winds in 

 this locality. 



The coast is cliffy for about 1 mile eastward of cape Cormorant, 

 it then turns to the northeastward, and is low and fronted by a stony 

 beach for about 2^ miks, whence to Cro^v head, a bluff' 112 feet high, 

 distant 1^ miles, it consists of cliffs of moderate height. Low point, 

 1^ miles south west ward of Crow head, is a slightly rounded projec- 

 tion of the shore, and westward of it is les Vaches, a small settle- 

 ment where there is a lobster factory and some cottages. The land 

 behind this coast rises gradualh' to thickly wooded ridges of moderate 

 height. 



White rock, lying ^ mile offshore with the northeastern end of 

 Red island bearing 267°, distant 1^^ miles, and nearly midwaj^ be- 

 tween Low point and the Ridge, is a small rocl^y patch with a depth 

 of 18 feet over it; the land about cape St. George, open westward 

 of the cliffs southward of cape Cormorant, bearing about 201°, leads 

 westward of the rock. 



Cow rocks, a cluster of rocks and shoals about 1,600 yards long 

 in a northeasterly and southwesterly^ direction, front the coast about 

 Low point at a distance of 600 yards. The northeastern rocks are 9 

 feet high ; 700 yards south westward from them is a small cluster that 

 dries 4 feet, and between are several shoal patches, while southwest- 

 ward, 700 yards from the rocks that dry 4 feet, and directly off the 

 houses at les Vaches, is a detached rock with 18 feet water over it. 



Cow rocks are fairly steep on the northw^estern side, there being 

 depths of 10 fathoms at about 700 yards outside of them; in thick 

 weather, therefore, when passing along the coast, do not shoal the 

 w^ater to less than 20 fathoms to insure passing outside of Red island 

 and these rocks. 



The coast for a short distance northeastward of Crow head con- 

 sists of cliffs ; it then falls quickly and continues low to Three Rocks 

 point, a distance of 2 miles. In the shallow bight between the head 

 and point there are a few fishermen's cottages. 



Three Rocks point has three rocky islets off it (the western being 

 14 feet high), and a store and huts on the beach inside. Some shelter 

 is afforded by the rocks, and landing may be effected here when it 

 is impracticable elsewhere in the locality: but a very heaA-y sea rolls 

 along the coast with winds westward of south-southwest. 



Shoals. — There are depths of less than 5 fathoms for 1,300 yards 

 westward of Three Rocks point, and there is a patch, with a depth 

 of 2f fathoms over it, bearing 275°, distant 800 yards from the high- 

 est islet. Northeastward of the point a shelving ledge extends 500 

 yards from the shore, and outside of this there is very foul ground 

 with depths of less than 3 fathoms for 300 yards farther ; this locality 

 should therefore be approached with caution. 



