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water off Road point; when the wooded bluff over Fox brook bears 

 about 88°, steer (about 182°) direct to the anchorage. 



To pass between Fox island and American bank, a small vessel may- 

 take the channel eastward of the 16-foot patch off North rock by 

 keeping Road point in line with the western end of Fox island, bear- 

 ing 164°, until North rock is in line with Broad cove point, 68° ; 

 then turn to the southward until Fox island is passed, when steer 

 direct to the Gravels anchorage. 



This channel is not suitable for a large vessel, as the tidal streams 

 are strong at times, and the passage, with a depth of 5 fathoms, is 

 only 300 yards wide. There is no good mark available for passing 

 between the 16-foot patch and American bank ; the chart is therefore 

 the guide. 



The coast from Bluff head (see p. 293) is cliffy and backed by 

 high, rocky hills and deep gullies, northward for about 2 miles to a 

 rounded point, off which there is a conspicuous pinnacle rock 22 feet 

 high. It is steep-to and may be safely approached to a distance of 

 400 yards, but, with strong offshore winds, squalls of great violence 

 prevail near Bluff head, and sailing vessels should then keep some dis- 

 tance from the land. 



Immediately northeastward of Bluff head cliff, and on the face of 

 the steep, wooded slope ^ mile inland, are the houses of the workmen 

 employed in the asbestos and chrome mines in the vicinity. 



Anchorag-e — Buoy. — Temporary anchorage has been obtained off 

 the northeastern end of Bluff' head cliff in 8 fathoms, sand bottom. 

 A large red buoy was moored here at about 400 yards offshore in 

 1898, and vessels calling for the chrome produced at the mines made 

 fast to it. 



The coast from abreast the pinnacle rock, 22 feet high, trends 

 about northeastward for 1^ miles to Lewis brook, where the cliffs 

 cease; from Lewis brook it trends about north-northeastward for 3 

 miles to Deadmans brook, and is a steep clay bank, averaging TO feet 

 in height, fronted by a stony beach. Deadmans brook is a small 

 stream flowing from a deep gully in the cliffy ranges, which here run 

 parallel to the shore at ^ mile inland. Behind these the land rises, in 

 bare and scrub-covered hills, to a height of 2,700 feet. 



The same coast features continue from Deadmans brook north- 

 northeastward for 3| miles to Rope cove. Molly Ann cove is 1-| miles 

 from Deadmans brook ; a small stream flows into the cove, and there 

 are one or two huts, occupied by fishermen during summer. The coast 

 northward of Lewis brook is fronted by a bank of sand, stones, and 

 rocks, and depths of less than 3 fathoms extend to a distance of 400 

 yards from the beach. 



Inland from Molly Ann cove the high range of hills turns abruptly 

 eastward; near the angle thus formed, and eastward 1^ miles from 



