EASTERN HEAD WOODY POINT. 317 



is grand and picturesque, the shores rising steejDly to high, timber- 

 clad hills. 



The water in Bonne bay is generally too deep for anchorage, but 

 there are places in it where good shelter can be obtained in a moderate 

 depth of water. 



For 4^ miles westward of the entrance to the bay there are sound- 

 ings of 50 to 70 fathoms, outside this deep area there are depths of 25 

 to 45 fathoms, while at about 10 miles off the entrance there is a bank 

 with 10 to 25 fathoms over it. (See also p. 322.) 



Sailing vessels entering Bonne bay during strong southerly or 

 westerly winds must be prepared for the violent squalls that blow off 

 the high land on the southern side. 



The principal settlement is at Woody point, on the western shore, 

 at 6j miles inside the entrance, and the population of the whole bay 

 numbers about 1,200, engaged chiefly in the cod and lobster fisheries. 



Ice. — Bonne bay never freezes until the field ice appears, which is 

 generally about the middle of January, but it is then completely 

 closed with ice about 2 feet in thickness until about the middle of 

 April, when the field ice disappears. There is occasionally ice on 

 the coast, sometimes blocking it up to about June 8. 



The first vessel usually arrives early in May, and the last leaves 

 about the end of December. 



Eastern head, eastward 1^ miles from Western head, is high and 

 steep ; between the heads there is a long strip of shingly beach at the 

 foot of the cliffs, and off the western end of this there is a detached 

 rock, situated 250 yards from the shore, which dries 2 feet. 



Vessels should not approach this shore within 400 yards; at East- 

 ern head, however, it becomes very steep and may be approached 

 closely. 



The shore from Eastern head trends southeastward for 2| miles 

 and then turns to the southward for ly% miles to Woody point; it is 

 steep, and rises, in high wooded cliff's and steep slopes, to a remark- 

 able cliffy escarpment which culminates in Crag peak, a summit 1,939 

 feet high ; northeastward of this and directly over the shore is a 

 large, pinnacle-shaped rock, conspicuous on southeasterly or westerly 

 bearings. There are several houses along the shore for f mile north- 

 ward of Woody point. 



This shore may be approached closely until within f mile from 

 Woody point. 



"Woody point is 54 feet high and projects from the higher land 

 behind, which here rises in steep slopes, more or less wooded and 

 broken by deep ravines. 



Woody Point village contains about 220 inhabitants; the English 

 and Roman Catholic churches on the slope southwestward of the 

 point are conspicuous; there are post and telegraph offices, schools,, 

 and churches of various denominations. 



