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bare islet, 19 feet high, bearing 156°, distant 800 yards from the high- 

 est of the northern group, with low reefs extending northwestward 

 200 yards, and eastward TOO yards from it. 



The shore of the Bay of Islands from South head trends about 

 southeastward for f mile to White point, and thence southward 

 for 1 j^y miles to the entrance of Lark harbor. 



Lark harbor lies between the peninsula of which Lark mountain 

 is the summit and a peninsula 1^ miles long, the summit of which, 

 mount Tortoise, is a round hill 787 feet high, and thickly wooded. 

 The harbor stretches southwestward 1^ miles with a slight bend to 

 the westward and is 700 yards wide; there are several houses and 

 piers on the northern shore. Low point is on the northern shore at 

 1 mile within the entrance, and a spit of shingle, which dries in 

 places, extends southward about 450 yards from it. Low island, 

 on this spit, is small and covers at high water springs; shoal water 

 extends about 250 yards from the northern shore at 600 yards east- 

 ward of Low island. 



A church, with a steeple, stands on Low point, and is noticeable 

 among the fishermen's huts and sheds. 



Rocky point is on the southeastern shore of the harbor at 1,600 

 yards within Tortoise point, the southern entrance point. There is 

 a whaling establishment at Lark harbor, with a slipway for hauling 

 up the whales, and a pier alongside of which the steam whalers go. 



Anchorage can be obtained in 13 fathoms of water, mud bottom, 

 northward about 265 yards from Rocky point ; or farther southwest- 

 ward in 6 J- fathoms, mud, with excellent holding ground ; easterly 

 winds bring a little sea into this anchorage ; and heavy squalls sweep 

 down Lark mountain with south and southwesterly winds, so that 

 South head should not be approached closely. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Lark harbor at ap- 

 proximately lOh. ; springs rise 6 feet, neaps 5 feet. 



York harbor lies southward of mount Tortoise, and between it 

 and the foot of Blow-me-down, a conspicuous mountain 2,125 feet 

 high. A valuable copper mine on the slopes of Blow-me-down 

 mountain is being worked, and about 250 men were employed there 

 in 1903. 



Governor island is situated nearly in the middle of York harbor, 

 and is 1^ miles long in an easterly and westerly direction, with a 

 general breadth of ^ mile. 



The coasts of the island are wooded ; inland there is a large marsh 

 with a lake and some ponds, and a few tufts of trees rise above this 

 marsh, the highest being 95 feet above high water. 



Sword point is the northwestern end of the island, and a sand spit 

 extends northwestward 300 yards from it ; shoal water entends ^ mile 

 off the southwestern end of the island. 



