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cove opens on the western shore, when anchor in the bay in 6^ 

 fathoms of w^ater, mud bottom, with good holding ground. 



Vessels bound northward and requiring temporary anchorage can 

 go into this bay, as it is left easily with westerly winds. 



Old FeroUe island. — The southwestern end of this island lies 

 northward 200 yards from Entrance island; the channel between is 

 shoal, and there is a small rock in the middle, but it is used by boats 

 and small schooners. Old Ferolle island is If^ miles long in a north- 

 easterly and southwesterly direction, generally about 400 yards wide, 

 69 feet high, bare on its northwestern side, and covered with gray flat 

 stones. On the upper parts of the northwestern side of the island 

 there are dead trees, except for about 800 yards from the south- 

 western end, where there is grass. 



Fish island lies northward 600 yards from Old Ferolle island; a 

 shallow flat, on which are three islets and some rocks, connects them. 

 Old Ferolle harbor, between Old Ferolle island, with the islands 

 northward of it, and the mainland, is about 1 mile long in a direction 

 parallel to Old Ferolle island, about 300 yards broad between the 

 5-fathom lines southeastward of Old Ferolle island, with an an- 

 chorage about 800 yards long in a northerly and southerly direction, 

 and over 200 yards wide, northeastAvard of that island, is entered 

 by Southern pass, southwestward of Entrance island, and Xorthern 

 pass, northeastward of Fish island, the latter being avaihible only 

 for small vessels. 



Local magnetic disturbance of the compass has been experi- 

 enced in this harbor, and is said to continue off the coast northeast- 

 ward to Current island. (See p. 75.) 



Directions. — By Southern pass: Enter with the leading beacons, 

 within Front point in line, bearing 119°, and when Debon peninsula 

 is open eastward of Entrance island, bearing 57°, round into the 

 channel; pass southeastward rather less than 200 yards from En- 

 trance island, and keep near the northwestern shore; or the three 

 beacons on Grave point in line, astern, bearing 225°, lead southeast- 

 ward of Entrance island and up the harbor. Anchor with Debon 

 peninsula bearing 125°, in 6 to 9 fathoms water, or farther northeast- 

 ward with the fresh-water stream bearing 80°, in 7 fathoms. 



To proceed northeastward from the anchorage, keep the south- 

 eastern coast of Old Ferolle island close aboard, and just shut En- 

 trance island in, bearing 220°, before the stream bears 91° ; this mark 

 leads northeastward in a least depth of 3| fathoms. When the 

 eastern end of Fish island bears 0° keep it so until the northern point 

 of Old Ferolle island bears 282°, when steer toward the middle of 

 Fish island and anchor with the eastern point of Fish island bearing 

 12°, distant 400 yards, in 7 fathoms of water, mud bottom. 



By Northern pass: Previous to entering, mark the eastern end of 



