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the cove, is mount Barren, a conspicuous summit, 2,300 feet high, 

 showing a bare perpendicular cliff to seaward. A detached summit, 

 1,530 feet high, | mile northward of mount Barren, shows a conical 

 peak from the westward, and is a useful mark. 



Shag" island, west-northwestward 1^ miles from Deadmans brook, 

 is ^ mile long in a northerly and southerly direction, 250 yards wide, 

 and it rises, in broken cliffs, to the height of 180 feet. It is steep-to 

 on its eastern side, and shoal water extends only a short distance off 

 its western side, but its southwestern end should not be approached 

 within 200 yards. The summit, covered with coarse grass, slopes 

 toward the northern end of tlie island, on the eastern side of which 

 there is a good landing place for boats. The channel between the 

 island and the mainland is clear. 



Anchorag'e. — There is fair anchorage northward of the island in 

 12 fathoms of water, during fine weather. 



Round reef. — The shoalest head of this rocky reef, over which 

 there is a depth of 4 feet of water, bears 251°, distant 1^^ miles from 

 the southwestern end of Shag island, and it breaks in heavy weather. 

 From this head the reef, with depths of less than 5 fathoms, extends 

 southwestward for x% mile, and northeastward for nearly ^ mile, and 

 it has a general width of TOO yards. 



Leading" marks. — The conical peak, northward of mount Barren, 

 in line with the northern end of Shag island, bearing 76°, leads north- 

 ward of Round reef; and the snout of Bear head in line with the 

 inner summit of Little Port head, bearing about 30°, leads eastward 

 of the reef. 



Shoals. — There is a small shoal, with 4f fathoms of water over it, 

 and 5 to 6 fathoms around, bearing 21G°, distant 1^ miles from the 

 shoalest head of Round reef. A small patch, with 5 fathoms of 

 water over it, bears 5°, distant 1 mile from the shoalest head of Round 

 reef ; there are depths of 5^ to 6 fathoms between it and the reef, and 

 from the patch there are depths of 6 to 4^- fathoms northwestward 

 toward Long ledge, but between this shallow water and the ledge 

 there is a channel about j mile wide Avith depths of 8 to 10 fathoms. 



Long ledge is a narrow ledge of rock, with depths of less than 5 

 fathoms, extending northeastward 4| miles from its southwestern end, 

 which bears 30°, 3f miles from Long point, the channel between hav- 

 ing depths of 6 to 9 fathoms in it. The middle of the ledge lies 4f 

 miles off the main shore ; 3^ miles from Shag island ; and 2 miles from 

 the shoalest head of Round reef. From its southwestern end the ledge 

 is shoal for 2^ miles. The middle part of the ledge, 1^ miles in 

 length, with an average breadth of less than 100 yards, dries at low 

 water, and some small detached patches and bowlders on this are 3 

 to 6 feet high. Northeastward of the drj^ part, the ledge is shoal for 

 the distance of I- mile. 



