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by a narrow strip of sandy beach. At its southwestern end there is 

 a small opening, but a bar off it dries at low water. 



There are a few settlers occupied in fishing and farming along the 

 shore in the vicinity of the lagoon. 



East road, just south westward of Two Guts barachois, is prob- 

 ably the best anchorage on this side of the bay, during the strong 

 northeasterly to southeasterly winds which so frequently blow here. 

 The bottom is mud, and a vessel can anchor as convenient, but, should 

 the wind haul to the southward, with a falling barometer, as it usually 

 does, it would be prudent to shift into West bay. 



Road point is a long, rounded projection of the coast, 2| miles 

 northward from the opening into Two Guts barachois. It is steep, 

 red clay banks, 20 feet high, to seaward, and the land behind is cov- 

 ered with coarse grass and clumps of dead trees. Comparatively 

 level country, thickly wooded, reaches inland from Road point to 

 the high stony plateau (see above), and is bounded on its northern 

 side by Fox brook. 



From Road point the shore bank of less than 3 fathoms gradually 

 increases its distance offshore to 1,200 yards, and closes in about ^ 

 mile northward of Fox brook. 



Anchorage. — There is indifferent anchorage northward of this 

 bank, in 10 fathoms water, mud bottom, with the southern end of 

 Fox island bearing 287°, distant Ij^ miles, but it is only safe during 

 southerly and southeasterly winds and fine weather. 



Fox brook, the entrance to which lies north-northeastwarcl, 1;^ 

 miles from Road point, is the largest stream running into Port au 

 Port, but although the water inside its mouth is deep enough for a 

 ship's boat, it is fronted by a-bar which dries 1 to 2 feet at low water. 

 A small stream from the eastward flows into the sea through the 

 same outlet. 



At a short distance inside its mouth the brook is obstructed by 

 banks of sand and shingle, as well as by low marshy islets which ex- 

 tend up for more than a mile ; above these the stream turns eastward, 

 flowing along the foot of a thickly wooded ridge. The western end 

 of this ridge makes, from the westward, as a steep wooded bluff, and 

 it is used as a leading mark. 



The shore from Fox brook trends northward for 3^ miles to Broad 

 Cove point, which consists of low, rocky cliffs, fairly steep, and may 

 be safely approached to the distance of 600 yards. 



Near the shore there are a few cottages, and the land behind rises, 

 in thickly wooded slopes, to the considerable elevation of 1,770 feet, 

 2^ miles eastward from Broad Cove point. 



Two ladders for ascending from the beach to the top of the cliffs 

 are situated at ly^o miles and a little over 2 miles, respectively, north- 

 ward of Fox brook entrance. 



