ARDENT ROCK. 341 



Ardent rock lies less than 150 yards westward from Qiierre islet, 

 and is joined to Port an Choix peninsula by shoal water. irVrdent tail, 

 a shoal, extends 200 yards northeastward from the rock. 



Beacons. — A beacon stands on the southwestern end of Querre 

 islet, a'nd a similar beacon on a small clitF on the southeastern shore 

 of the port; these beacons in line bear. 200°. 



At the head of the harbor are three pyramidal beacons. Lower 

 P3a^amid, the lowest of these, is on the shore; the middle one, sur- 

 mounted by a ball, is about 350 yards behind it; and Gargamelle 

 pyramid, the third, is on the summit of the land at rather over 100 

 yards inside of the northw^estern shore of Gargamelle cove; these 

 beacons in line bear 223°. 



A beacon stands on the shore, bearing 132°, distant ^ mile from 

 Querre Islet beacon ; and two beacons are situated on the shore, bear- 

 ing 96°, distant about 950 yards from Querre Islet beacon, which in 

 line bear 127°. 



A beacon, with a St. Andrew's cross top mark, stands on the south- 

 ern shore of the port, bearing 80°, distant 665 yards from Lower 

 pyramid beacon ; it is a good anchoring mark. 



Directions. — From about ^ mile northeastward of Barbace point 

 steer south west ward and bring the beacon on the southeastern shore 

 of the port in line w^ith the beacon on the southwestern end of Querre 

 islet, bearing 200^". Keep these beacons in line until the three bea- 

 cons at the head of the harbor are in line, bearing 223°, which mark 

 leads in 4f fathoms, the deepest water, into the port. When inside 

 of Querre islet keep a little toward the southeastern shore, and anchor 

 at the head in 4-1 fathoms water. Round head, just shut in southeast- 

 ward of Savage island, leads southeastward of the shoals on the north- 

 western side of the port. 



To pass southeastward of Savage island in a least depth of 16 feet 

 bring, while about ^ mile northeastward of Savage island, the beacon 

 southeastward of Querre islet, just opened southward of the southern 

 end of a rocky' islet, situated about 250 yards northeastward of the 

 beacon, bearing 219°, which mark leads about 100 yards southeast- 

 ward of Savage island. 



The beacons eastward of Querre islet in line lead over the shoal 

 noi'theastward of the islet at about 100 yards from the islet, and in a 

 least depth of 15 feet water. 



Caution. — In a steam vessel, avoid the nets that are usually set off 

 Barbace point. 



Anchorage may be obtained at 400 yards southward of Savage 

 island, in 5^ fathoms water, sheltered except from northeasterly 

 winds, and temporary anchorage in the bay between Barbace point 

 and Savage island in about 11 fathoms water, travel bottom. 



