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The best anchorage in Humber arm is off the shore between Fox 

 and Halfway points, there being depths of 10 fathoms at 400 yards 

 and of 20 fathoms at 600 yards from the shore. 



A reef extends 300 yards from the shore at 1,300 yards southeast- 

 ward of Fox point. The house on the w^estern side of Cook cove, 

 open eastward of Halfway point, bearing 142°, leads eastward of this 

 reef. 



Pleasant cove, east-southeastward 3^ miles from Halfway point, 

 and separated from Bannatyne cove, westward of it, by a bluff" point, 

 is 400 yards wide and 200 yards deep ; a shoal extends 100 yards off 

 its head. The magistrate's house, a large two-storied building, stands 

 on a rise southw-ard of the cove, southw^estward of a bare mound 150 

 feet high, on the summit of which is a large bowlder. 



A wharf, at which the local mail steamer discharges her cargo, 

 projects northward from the eastern entrance point ; and a rock and 

 shoal water extend 150 yards from the shore eastward of this wharf. 



Anchorage for small vessels can be obtained off' Bannatyne and 

 Pleasant coves, the depth of 10 fathoms being distant a little more 

 than 200 yards from the shore. 



Coniinunication. — The telegraph office in connection with the 

 Anglo-American Company is in the courthouse, a white wooden 

 building on the summit of the slope southward of the magistrate's 

 house. 



Birchy cove is situated at about 1^ miles eastward of Pleasant 

 cove; on its shores are an Episcopal church, a white building, with 

 a small spire; the parsonage, a large two-storied house with a clock 

 in the gable end facing the river; and a Roman Catholic church, 

 which is white, with two spires. Shoal water extends but a short 

 distance from the shore of this cove. 



Anchor off Birchy cove as convenient, there being depths of 10 

 fathoms at about 200 yards from the shore. The best position ap- 

 pears to be about midway between the two piers and 200 yards off' 

 shore, in 10 to 12 fathoms of water, mud bottom, where a vessel of 

 moderate size can lie with about 40 fathoms of cable out. For any 

 stay, and also late in the year, it is advisable to moor. 



Piers. — The western pier in Birchy cove has a depth of 16 feet 

 water at its outer end, which is 60 feet long, and the small coasting 

 steamers go alongside it. There are some other piers in the cove. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Birchy cove at lOh. 

 26m.; springs rise 5 feet, neaps 3 J feet; neaps range 2f feet. The 

 water level is influenced by the state of Humber river. 



Coal.— In 1905 there was a small stock of government coal (some 

 200 tons) stored in a shed on the western pier. A vessel of 12 feet 

 draft could coal alongside the pier; there are no coal lighters. 

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