316 CAPE EAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



Trout river flows into the southern corner of Trout River bay, a 

 deep bight, and its entrance is sheltered from the sea by a projecting 

 headland. The river is a small stream discharging from a series of 

 extensive ponds, which begins a little over a mile inland. The river 

 bar has 2 to 3 feet of water over it, but it is encumbered by bowlders, 

 and only small boats can cross it. 



On a sandy beach at the eastern side of the river's mouth, and on 

 the rising bank behind, there are several houses, containing about 170 

 inhabitants who are engaged in the cod and lobster fisheries. 



Anchorage can be obtained, with offshore winds, off the middle of 

 Trout River bay in 9 to 10 fathoms of water; small vessels may go 

 closer in, but there is usually a heavy ground swell during winds 

 from seaward. 



Communication. — From Trout River settlement there is a rough 

 road to South arm of Bonne bay, and the coasting steamer, to and 

 from that place, occasionally calls off the river during fine weather. 



The coast from Trout River bay trends northeastward for 5f miles 

 to Western head of Bonne bay, and is cliffy and fronted by low water 

 rocks and ledges, extending, in places, 200 yards from the land. 

 There are occasional patches of conspicuous red cliff and steep slopes, 

 forming low headlands covered with grass, the bright green of which 

 is, in summer, in contrast to the dark spruce-covered hills above. 



Immediately within the coast the hills rise to a considerable height, 

 and farther inland are the seaward face and upper portion of an ex- 

 tensive tableland covered Avith broken sandstone, bare of vegetation, 

 and occasional marshy patches, which begins near the large ponds 

 behind Trout river, and reaches across to within 1^ miles of South 

 arm of Bonne bay. 



At Green garden, 8^ miles from Trout River bay, where a green 

 slope leaves a narrow strip of flat land behind the shore, there are one 

 or two huts, occupied, during summer, by fishermen from Bonne bay. 



The low water ledge extends rather more than 200 yards oft' Green 

 garden, and there are some small detached rocks a little eastward 

 of it. At Skinner cove, f mile farther northeastward, a small stream 

 runs into the sea; and between this cove and Western head, north- 

 eastward 1^ miles, the very steep slopes rise to the height of 1,005 

 feet. 



Western head, from the westward, appears as the end of the high 

 land to the southward; there are some detached rocks close off it, the 

 highest of which is 57 feet high. 



Bonne bay, the entrance to which, from Western head to Lobster 

 Cove head, is nearly 4 miles across, extends southeastward for about 6 

 miles, then separates into two arms. East arm, the eastern, being 5^ 

 miles long and about f mile wide ; and South arm, the western, 4 miles 

 long and a little more than ^ mile wide. The scenery in these arms 



