332 CAPE EAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



Westward of Portland hill, flat ledges appear outside the stony 

 beach and continue for a distance of 2 miles to a place where there 

 are some cottages and a canning factory. Thence the coast, a sandy 

 beach, gradually turns to the northward for about f mile, to the 

 entrance of Portland creek, and then, forming a bight, westward for 

 800 yards to Eastern head. 



Portland cove lies between the canning factory and Eastern head ; 

 the water in it off the creek is shallow for about 500 yards, but out- 

 side this there is fairly good anchorage, during easterly winds, in 

 about 4 fathoms water, sand and mud bottom, but it appears to be bad 

 holding ground. 



There are no shoals outside the depth of 3 fathoms, which, however, 

 is nearly 600 yards from the shore. A little more than 200 yards off 

 the factory there is a ledge which dries, with shoal water between it 

 and the rocks. 



Portland creek runs 1 mile inland from Portland Creek pond; 

 there is a depth of 2 to 3 feet in the creek, but owing to its being 

 obstructed by bowlders, it is difficult for a boat to get through, though 

 the entrance is easy of access in fine weather. 



Portland Creek pond, of an irregular ovate form, is nearly 5 

 miles long in a northeasterly and southeasterly direction and 2| 

 miles wide ; it reaches to within 1,200 yards from the sea in an easterly 

 direction from Cliffy point. At its southeastern end is the mountain 

 range. Its outlet is Portland creek. 



At 4:^ miles within the entrance it passes, by a narrow channel 

 accessible to boats, into its inner part, which occupies a mountain 

 gorge. 



The depth of water in the outer pond is 3 to 7 fathoms, but a sound- 

 ing of 95 fathoms has been obtained in the inner one. 



The residents of Daniels cove keep several boats on the outer pond 

 in which they make hunting excursions. 



On the eastern side of the inner pond is Gros pate (Blow-me- 

 down), a truncated mountain, 1,650 feet high, with nearly vertical 

 sides, and conspicuous. The range continues northeastward for some 

 5 miles, and it terminates a little beyond East hill, a summit 2,115 

 feet high. 



Eastern head, the northern point of Portland cove, is 47 feet 

 high, rocky, and bare on the top. 



The coast trends north-northeastward and is rocky for Ix^ti miles 

 from the head ; here there is a white stony beach, in front of a high 

 green bank ; it then turns northward to Cliffy point, which is rocky, 

 with a bank 60 feet high inside of it. 



Brown shoal, a small rocky patch with 4 fathoms of water over 

 it and 10 fathoms inside, bears 352°, one mile from Eastern head and 

 I mile offshore. 



