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Shoal water of less than 5 fathoms extends about fiOO yards off 

 this shore, which between Ponds river and Burntwood point should 

 not be ai3proached nearer than 800 yards. 



Burntwood point is 20 feet high, with a green bank just behind 

 it, from which wooded ridges rise gradually to the height of about 

 250 feet. 



Eboulement point (locally Spirity point), the southern entrance 

 point of Ingornachoix bay, lies north-northeastward, 2 miles from 

 Burntwood point. Between them the land rises a little, and is thickly 

 wooded, but a large bare space on the face of the high clay bank 

 at ^ mile from Eboulement point, is conspicuous. 



Rocks. — A rocky patch, with a least depth of 2 fathoms over it, 

 is situated with Eboulement point bearing 120°, distant TOO yards. 



A rock, with a depth of 22 feet over it, is situated with Eboule- 

 ment point bearing 137°. distant 1,100 yards. 



A rock, with a depth of IG feet over it, is situated with Eboulement 

 point bearing 213°. distant 1,300 yards. The shoal on which this 

 rock lies extends northeastward about a mile from Eboulement point, 

 and there are depths of 3 to 4 fathoms over it. 



Leading" mark. — The southern part of Two Hills point open 

 northward of Keppel island, bearing 64°, leads northward of these 

 rocks in a least depth of 7 fathoms of water. 



Caution. — When rounding Eboulement point in thick or heavy 

 weather do not decrease the soundings to less than 25 fathoms. 



Ing-ornachoix bay, the entrance to which is between Eboulement 

 and Rich points, which are distant 6 miles from each other in a 

 northerly and southerl}^ direction, extends 3^ miles eastAvard of the 

 line joining the entrance points, and is quite open. The entrances 

 to Hawke harbor and bay, Keppel harbor, and port Saunders are 

 in the southeastern part of the bay. 



Trapper cove, northeastward ly^o miles from Eboulement point, 

 is a shallow bight. Hawke point is its eastern entrance point. 



Keppel island, northeastward, distant 9,^-^ miles from Eboulement 

 point, and at the head of the bay off the entrances to Hawke and 

 Keppel harbors and port Saunders, is about 1 mile long in an 

 easterly and westerly direction, with a greatest width of ^ mile; its 

 coasts are steep-to, but Morue spit, shingle-covered at high water, 

 extends eastward | mile from Grass point, the eastern end of the 

 island. The northwestern end of the island is a blackish cliff. 



Light. — A square pyramidal lighthouse, 23 feet high, surmounted 

 by an octagonal drum and lantern, and painted red and white in 

 horizontal bands, on the northwestern point of Keppel island, ex- 

 hibits, at 107 feet above high water, a fixed white light that should 

 be seen from a distance of 14 miles in clear w^eather. 



