308 CAPE BAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



Anchorage can be obtained between Maciver island and Rattler 

 brook, there being depths of 10 fathoms at 400 yards, and of 20 

 fathoms at 600 yards from the shore. 



Woods or Harbor island. — Shoal point, the southeastern end of 

 Woods island, lies west-northwestward lyV miles from Maciver point, 

 and about northward ly% miles from Lower Frenchman point, and 

 the island extends northwestward, 3 miles from Shoal point, with 

 an average width of 1 mile. It is wooded throughout, and attains, 

 at about its middle, a height of 195 feet, and there is a small range 

 of hills, 245 feet high, near its northw^estern end. 



A small settlement, with a considerable space of cultivated ground 

 attached to it, is situated near Shoal point, and there are several 

 houses on the southeastern and southern coasts. 



A shoal, composed of rock covered in places with sand, with 1 to 

 6 feet water over it, extends southeastward 550 yards from Shoal 

 point, and then the Avater deepens to 6 fathoms. This shoal is said 

 to be extending and a wide berth should be given to the point. 



Woods harbor, the entrance of which is on the western side of the 

 island northwestward, 2y% miles from Shoal point, is an inlet, 400 

 yards wdde, extending northeastward (500 yards and thence eastward 

 J mile. 



A reef, that uncovers at low water, extends 100 yards from the 

 southern entrance point, and narrows the passage, with 12 feet of 

 water, to a breadth of 95 yards. 



Enter with a grassy point, in the middle of the northeastern shore 

 (jf the harbor, just open northward of a small round rock lying off 

 the first point on the southern shore within the entrance, bearing 

 49°, and when Avithin the entrance jjoints, close the northern shore, 

 to clear a rock with 6 feet of water over it, situated westward nearly 

 100 yards from the small round rock described above. 



When the points on the southwestern shore of the inner bend are 

 open, bearing about 122°, turn southeastward, and anchor in 3^ fath- 

 oms of water, mud bottom. 



Puffin islands are two islands lying within 1,200 yards northwest- 

 ward of the northwestern point of Woods island; the southeast- 

 ern island has a group of trees on each of its two mounds, Avhich are 

 91 feet high ; the northwestern island is 70 feet high. 



The passage betAveen the southeastern island and the northwestern 

 point of Woods island is a few yards wide, with a rock that uncovers 

 lying in the middle ; it is only suitable for boats. 



Vesuvius rock, Avith 1^ feet of Avater over it, is near the north- 

 western end of a ledge extending north-northwestward, 900 yards 

 from the northwestern Puffin island. The western fall of Blow-me- 

 down range, open westward of Seal island, bearing 220°, leads close 



