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which is a depth of 23 feet water. There are ringbolts in the rocks 

 for securing hawsers. 



Buoy. — A spar huoy, northwestward about 200 feet from the 

 wharf, marks some moorings for small vessels to use when lying 

 alongside. 



Coal. — A small stock of Welsh coal is maintained at Neddy harbor 

 for the use of British government ships. The coal shed is at the inner 

 end of the wharf. 



Supplies. — Meat is very good except early in the year ; vegetables 

 are scarce in spring ; bread is good. Water is good and plentiful ; it 

 was to be convej^ed to the wharf by pipes. 



Position. — A large fiat bowlder of serpentine rock, marked with a 

 broad arrow and situated on the northwestern shore of the harbor, 

 100 yards from a small fishing stage with a store on it, is in latitude 

 49° 31' 30" north, and longitude 57° 52' 27" west of Greenwich. 



Norris cove is a bight in the shore, just south westward of Burnt 

 point, the southwestern entrance point of Neddy harbor; it has a 

 small settlement, which, with Sandy cove, contains about 175 inhabi- 

 tants ; there is a path from Norris cove to Roche harbor. 



Norris point, the western j^oint of this cove, has a ledge of rocks 

 extending 100 yards from it ; between the point and Gadds head is the 

 Tickle, a deep and clear channel 500 yards wide. 



Sandy head, northwestward 800 yards from Norris point, is a 

 conspicuous projection, 74 feet high, appearing steep, bare, and sandy 

 from the southwestward. Between it and Norris point there are 

 several houses and fishing stages, as also in Deckers cove, northward 

 of it, which is separated by a narrow neck from the head of Neddy 

 harbor. 



Wild Cove head, northwestward nearly | mile from Sandy 

 head, is a dark, rocky, wooded point, and separates Deckers cove from 

 Wild cove. 



Shoal. — An extensive stony fiat fronts the shore from Norris point 

 to Wild Cove head, the outer edge of the 3-fathom contour line being 

 a little over 600 yards off Sandy cove, while at the distance of 300 

 yards there is a small patch with 6 feet of water over it. Bearing 

 246° distant 350 yards from Norris point, where the edge of the shoal 

 turns sharply northwestward, there is a small patch, with 2 feet of 

 water over it, and 1^ fathoms between it and the point; off Sandy 

 head the stones dry for nearly 200 yards. 



Leading- mark. — Gadds point in line with Shag cliff, bearing 

 84°, leads southward of the shoal off Norris point, and through the 

 western part of the Tickle. 



Anchorage. — A fiat, with depths of 6 to 8 fathoms of water over 

 it, is situated at the western entrance to the Tickle, and it affords 



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