344 CAPE KAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



Round Head shoal, with 7 feet of water over it, extends southward 

 250 yards from the southwestern point of the island. 



Shoal. — A shoal, with 4^ fathoms of water over it, lies 295°, distant 

 450 yards from Round Head point. 



Falaise shoal, with 13 feet of water over it, lies 150 yards north- 

 ward of the northeastern part of Round Head island ; there is a depth 

 of 5 fathoms close northward of it. Horn island, a little open north- 

 ward of the foot of Round head, bearing 239°, leads northwestward 

 of the shoal. 



Good bay, a spacious anchorage between St. John and Round 

 Head islands, has deep water, but good holding ground, and there is 

 never any sea ; it is entered either from the eastward or westward. 



Anchorage beacons. — Well point lies northeastward, distant 600 

 yards from Horn island, and on the point are two beacons which in 

 line bear 255°. 



On the northern shore of Good bay, nearly ^ mile northeastward of 

 Well point, are two beacons which in line bear 355°. 



The best anchorage in Good bay is in about 17 fathoms at the inter- 

 section of the lines of the two pairs of beacons. 



Well bay, a small bay of St. John island northward of Well point, 

 affords good anchorage for small vessels in 7 fathoms of water, sand 

 bottom, but shoal water extends 200 yards from the northern shore at 

 ^ mile eastward of the head of the bight. The well that gives the 

 name to the bay is a curious natural excavation in the rock, 65 feet 

 below the surface of the ground, near the path from Well bay to St. 

 John harbor ; the depth of water in the well is about 30 feet. 



Sheep island lies 150 yards off the northwestern shore and near 

 the eastern end of Good bay; it is less than 200 yards in diameter; 

 an islet and shoal water are between it and the shore to the westward, 

 and a reef extends 400 yards southeastward of it. This reef is joined 

 to Flat point, 400 yards to the northeastward, by a shoal bank. 



Barred bay, between Sheep island and Flat point, affords anchor- 

 age to small craft, but the holding ground is bad. The northwestern 

 side of Square rock in line with the southeastern side of Horn island, 

 bearing 235°, leads southeastward of the shoals off Barred bay. 



Beacon. — There is a beacon on Flat point, the northeastern 

 entrance point of Barred bay. 



Hare island, northeastward 1,200 yards from Round Head 

 island, is 1,700 yards long in a northeasterly and southwesterly direc- 

 tion, I mile wide, low and rugged; shoals extend nearly 400 yards 

 from its southwestern end. 



Passage shoals, lying 350 yards from Round Head island, ahd 

 between it and Hare island, are two heads, the western with a depth of 

 6 feet of water, and the other, about 200 yards to the eastward, with 



