300 CAPE RAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



Fishing" nets. — During autumn large numbers of herring nets are 

 laid in the arms of the Bay of Islands and around Woods island. 

 They are always laid parallel to the shore and usually in the depth 

 of 18 feet. The fisher}^ continued till the middle of January in 1907. 



Guernsey (or Weebald island), the southwestern island of the 

 group lying in the entrance to the Bay of Islands, situated Ij^ miles 

 northward of South head, is a little over a mile long, in a north- 

 northwesterly and south- southeasterly direction, 1,400 yards wide, 

 and 1,053 feet high; it is almost barren, but there are a few trees near 

 its southern end, where is the best landing place in ordinary weather. 



Tweed island (or French Island) , separated from Guernsey island, 

 lying to the northeastward, by a passage f mile wide, is 1-f^ miles 

 long east and west, -^-^ mile in greatest width, with a bare summit, 702 

 feet high, falling in black perpendicular cliffs on the northwestern 

 and northeastern coasts. 



A round rock, 2 feet high, lies close to the southwestern point of 

 Tweed island, and a rock that uncovers 4 feet, lies southwestward 

 nearly 200 yards from the round rock. 



The ]3assage between Guernsey and Tweed island is otherwise clear 

 to within 200 yards from the northern end of Guernsey. 



During summer temporary fishermen's huts are erected on the east- 

 ern coast. 



Temporary anchorage may be obtained off the cove between Grassy 

 and Little Grassy islets, on the northeastern side of Tweed island, in 

 9 to 12 fathoms water, and also off the cove on the northern side 

 in 8 to 11 fathoms, but westerly winds quickly cause a heavy sea. 



Hen island, situated 800 yards northward from the northwestern 

 end of Tweed island, is about 400 yards in length, covered with grass, 

 and rises in a round hummock to the height of 222 feet. 



A rock, with 4 feet of water over it, bears 105°, distant 900 yards 

 from the southern point of Hen island. 



Green island, or Woody island, northeastward 700 yards from 

 Hen island, is 1,100 yards long, in an easterly and westerly direc- 

 tion, 900 yards in greatest width, and it rises to a round hill 415 feet 

 high, with the summit covered with moss ; there is a small cove on the 

 southwestern side of this island, in which are several rocks. 



Saddle island (formerly Shag rocks), northward ^ mile from 

 Green island, is a narrow island, rather more than 600 j^ards long, 

 in a north-northeasterly and south-southwesterly direction, and di- 

 vided into two rocky parts, connected by a narrow ridge ; the southern 

 part, 170 feet high, is round and covered with grass and a few stunted 

 trees, while the northern is 163 feet high, bare and rugged, with a 

 square pillar 150 feet high on its northern side, which is prominent 

 on easterly or westerly bearings. 



