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Broad cove, just eastward of Broad Cove point, is a small indenta- 

 tion of the shore about f mile wide across its mouth. 



The cove is foul and rocky, and a ledge extends northward nearly 

 400 yards from Board Cove point. 



At the southern side of this cove, near a small stream, there is a 

 cluster of buildings, used at one time as a lobster factory, and now 

 forming a mark for crossing the bar off Long point on a compass 

 bearing. A j)ath leads from this locality to the asbestos mines, a 

 little behind Bluff head, the distance by it being about 1^ miles. 



Bluff head, north-northeastward, 1^ miles from Broad Cove point, 

 is a very conspicuous headland, showing a perpendicular cliff to sea- 

 ward, its summit attaining a height of 1,630 feet. From it, and 

 from the higher summits eastward of it, the hills slope down, form- 

 ing deep gullies and watercourses toward Broad cove. 



Fox island, situated 4^ miles south-southeastward from Long 

 point, is 1,200 yards long in a northerly and southerly direction, 600 

 yards wide, and near the middle of its length, 145 feet high; the 

 grassy slopes on its western side are in strong contrast to the dark 

 clumps of spruce still standing about its summit. 



The coast at the southern end of the island is cliffy for about 500 

 yards, and eastward of this a steep bank is fronted by a small shingle 

 beach occuj^ied by the buildings of a lobster factory; the coasts else- 

 where are rocky with shelving ledges off the points, while two steep 

 bluffs alternate with grassj?^ slopes on the western side. The south- 

 eastern side of the island is steep-to at a short distance, and so is the 

 southern outside a steep rock off the end, but Fox tail extends north- 

 ward and northeastward from the island. 



Fox tail is the rocky shoal bank, which within a depth of 5 fathoms 

 extends northward to a distance of 2 miles from Fox island, with a 

 breadth near its outer part of 1 mile. 



Northeastward, 400 yards from the northeastern end of the island, 

 there is a ledge, 300 3^ards in length, which covers at high-water 

 springs; and north-northwestward 400 to 600 yards from the ledge 

 are two small rocks awash at low water ; around the northeastern of 

 these the depths are 3J to 4 fathoms. 



White rock is the northern end of Fox tail. The least water over 

 it is 7 feet at ly^o to 1^ miles from the island. From this shoalest 

 part there are depths of less than 3 fathoms for 700 j^ards both north- 

 ward and toward the island, leaving, between White rock and the 

 rocks awash at low water, a channel ^ mile wide, and carrying 3^ to 

 4 fathoms of water. 



The western extreme of Bear head in line with the western end of 

 Shag island, bearing 25°, leads eastward of Fox tail in not less than 

 9 fathoms of water, and through the channel between Fox island and 

 Hoad point. 



