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Both sides of the entrance are nearly steep-to, but the southern 

 shore shoals, within the line of the points immediately inside. 



The Fox, a rock nearly awash, is situated 100 yards off the first 

 point on the southern shore within the entrance. 



Shoal water extends a short distance off English point, the first 

 point in on the northern shore. 



Clearing mark. — Bare point, just to the southward of a woody 

 eminence in the profile of the land at the head of the bay, bearing 60°, 

 leads close northward of the Fox and southward of the shoal water 

 of English point, but this mark is reported to be of very little use. 



Anchorage. — There is temporary anchorage in Sesostris bay, a 

 bight in the southern shore opposite English point, in 9 to 13 fathoms 

 of water, sand and mud bottom ; small craft anchor in the Haven, at 

 the head, in 5 fathoms, mud; the holding ground is good, but fresh 

 westerly winds soon raise a sea. A vessel over 100 feet long should 

 anchor in Sesostris bay and haul into, and moor in, the Haven, where 

 the holding ground and shelter are good, but in heavy westerly gales 

 the swell rolls in. 



The Men-hir, a remarkable rock, stands on the coast at a little 

 more than -J mile northwestward of the entrance to St. John harbor. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in St. John harbor at 

 lOh. 40m,; springs rise 7^ feet, neaps 5^ feet. The tidal streams in 

 the harbor are inappreciable. 



Square rock, southeastward, f mile from Photograph point and 

 300 3^ards offshore, is about 265 yards long in a northeasterly and 

 southwesterly direction, 100 yards wide, 20 feet high, and steep-to 

 on its northwestern side, leaving a clear passage between it and 

 the island, but shoals extend nearly 200 yards from the other sides. 



Horn island, I mile long in a northeasterly and southwesterly 

 direction and 150 yards wide, lies northeastward | mile from Square 

 rock and is separated from St. John island by a passage 100 yards 

 wide, with 13 feet of water in mid-channel. 



Horn spit, with 12 feet least water over it, extends east-northeast- 

 ward for 600 yards from the middle of the eastern side of Horn 

 island; it is steep-to. 



Beacon. — There is a beacon on Horn island. 



Round Head island, 750 yards southward of the eastern part of 

 St. John island, is 1| miles long in an east-northeasterly and west- 

 southwesterly direction, 750 yards Avide and 180 feet high. Round 

 head is a conspicuous hummock, 98 feet high, situated toward the 

 western end of the northwestern coast of the island ; and immediately 

 southeastward of Bound Head point, the northwestern end of the 

 island, is Round Head cove, a shallow inlet nearly 600 yards in 

 extent. 



