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Tucker head, a mound 131 feet high, is situated on the northern 

 shore about a mile westward from the mouth of Hughes brook. 



Irishtown is a conspicuous white house, with a few smaller build- 

 ings, situated on the shore of a small cove westward about 600 yards 

 from Tucker head. Inner Aspen point, the western point of this 

 cove, has a conspicuous single aspen tree on it. Rood point is about 

 y% mile westward of Inner Aspen point. 



Petitpas cove, situated between Rood point and Petitpas point, 

 distant f mile to the westward, has a considerable settlement and a 

 white church with a spire on its shores; there is also a sawmill and 

 several wharves. The whole place seemed almost deserted in 1905. 



Anchorag'e. — Shoal water extends but a short distance from the 

 shore, and anchorage can be obtained in Petitpas cove, in 13 to 19 

 fathoms Avater, sand and mud bottom, depths of 20 fathoms being 

 distant ^ mile from the shore; the holding ground is very good. 



Davis cove, immediately westward of Petitpas cove, affords no 

 anchorage ; there is a waterfall above the mouth of the brook flowing 

 into the cove. 



Meer point, westward, 2 miles from Davis cove, is low and flat, 

 rising gently to a hill 200 feet high, close to the shore northwestward 

 of it ; between Davis cove and the point are a series of small coves. 



A rock, that dries 1^ feet at low water, lies about 100 yards from the 

 shore midway between Davis cove and Meer point. 



Guilem cove. — The shore from Meer point trends north-north- 

 westward 1:^ miles to Kelp Cove point, and Guilem cove lies between 

 Kelp Cove point and a point 1,300 yards farther northward. A deep 

 valley extends inland from the cove, and is drained by a stream, off 

 the mouth of which a shoal extends 350 yards. 



Anchorage can be obtained in 12 fathoms of water, with the ex- 

 treme of the land southward of Kelp Cove point, bearing 158°, and 

 the mouth of the brook 38°, distant 300 yards from the shore, the 

 depths decreasing gradually eastward and southward of this position. 



The shore from the northern point of Guilem cove trends north- 

 westward for 2 miles, and thence northward for y^jj mile to Big head. 



Big head, the northern point of Skeleton cove, is a steep cliff rising 

 to a dark wooded conical hill 488 feet high. Rattler brook flows 

 into the arm in a conspicuous waterfall, at 600 yards northward of 

 Big head. 



Maciver cove is situated north-northwestward 1,400 yards from 

 Rattler brook, and Maciver island, a bare rock, 15 feet high, near 

 the southern end of the cove, is joined to the mainland by a shoal. 



Maciver point, the eastern entrance point to Humber arm, lies 

 about ^ mile west-northwestward of Maciver cove. 



