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with the eastern part of White Rock islets, forms Shallow bay, where 

 there is fairly good anchorage for vessels of less than 14 feet draft, 

 with southerly winds ;. and vessels drawing less than 12 feet find shel- 

 ter, with the wind from southward of a westerly direction, by going 

 as close as possible to White Rock islets; but with westerly winds a 

 heavy sea is likely to roll in and. at low water, to break over the 

 greater part of the bay. 



Anchorag'e. — The best anchorage is with the Avhole of Stearing 

 island and rocks, just open northward of the northeasterly grassy 

 White Rock islet, bearing about 256°, and the canning factor}^ at Cow 

 Head harbor, a conspicuous whitewashed building on the shore just 

 open southeastward of White Rock islets in 3^ fathoms of water, but 

 quite close to the edge of the 3-fathom bank extending from the islets 

 and Downes point. A little northeastward of this position a 3-fathom 

 bank extends from the main shore, leaving a bight of 3^ to 4^ fathoms 

 of water between it and Downes point ; and it is in this bight that 

 anchorage should be obtained. 



Directions. — From the southAvestAvard pass Avestward of White 

 Rock islets, which are fairly steep-to, and haul round their northeast- 

 ern end, giving the rocks a berth of about 100 yards. From the 

 northward pass the shoal water off LoAver head in 8 to 9 fathoms, and 

 then steer for the northeastern end of White Rock islets before haul- 

 ing into the anchorage. 



Evang-eline banks are a series of rocky patches extending from 

 700 yards nortliAvard of Tortoise rock to the shoals AvestAvard of 

 Lower head (Stanford point). The general depths of the banks are 

 3^ to 5 fathoms, but the shoalest patch of 2 fathoms bears 319°, dis- 

 tant 900 yards from the northeastern grassy AVhite Rock islet, and is 

 on a patch about 500 yards long in a northerly and southerly direc- 

 tion, and 200 yards wide. North-northeastward, 300 yards from this 

 patch, there is a patch of 2f fathoms, Avith 3^ fathoms betAveen. 



Inside these banks, between White Rock islets and LoAver head, 

 fronting the shoaler area in Shallow bay, there is a space of water 

 Avith depths of 5 to 7 fathoms in it. 



LoAver head. (Stanford point) is a rocky projection at the ter- 

 mination of the sandy shore extending northeastAvard from Coav head. 

 It is 35 feet high, and from it a Ioav cliffy coast with a small sandy 

 bight extends north-northeastward 800 yards. Off LoAAer head, and 

 also off this cliffy coast, shoal water extends nearly ^ mile, and is 

 clearly marked by breaks, Avhen there is any SAvell. 



The coast from the cliffs trends north-northeastward, and is low 

 and thickly Avooded for 3^ miles, rising gradually to the slopes of 

 Parsons Pond hill, Avhich is 460 feet high, densely Avooded to the sum- 

 mit, and conspicuous. The rough beach of stones and boAvlders is 



