364 CAPE EAY TO CAPE BAULD, 



Grand Mulou shoal, northeastward 1,200 j^ards from Verte island, 

 is a bank about 300 yards in diameter, with a least depth of 6 feet 

 of water over it. 



Leading" marks. — The Mewstone, in line with the southern end of 

 Little island, bearing 264°, leads northward; Great Island summit, 

 in line with the northern end of Little island, bearing 287°, leads 

 northward; and the southwestern end of Great island, just open 

 southwestward of the southwestern end of Little island, bearing 284°, 

 leads southward of Grand Mulou shoal, and between it and Maria 

 reefs< 



Maria reefs, eastward 1,400 yards from Verte island, are a group 

 of black islets, some of which are 7 feet high. 



Medee bay, lying southward of Verte island, is obstructed by 

 shoals and islets ; there are some fishing stages at its head. 



Cape Ardoise, ^ mile southeastward of Verte island, is the north- 

 eastern end of a promontory, which, at 200 yards within the cape, 

 rises to a remarkable round gray hill, 184 feet high. 



Maria bay, lying between cape Ardoise and cape Raven, which 

 bears 124° 1,900 yards from it, is open to the northeastw^ard and 

 affords no shelter. 



Rock. — A rock, with 6 feet of water over it, lies nearly in the middle 

 of the entrance to Maria bay, with cape Ardoise bearing 295°, distant 

 800 yards. 



Mauve bay (Noddy harbor). — Noddy point bears eastward 

 f mile from cape Raven, and Mauve bay extends southward 1| miles 

 from between them. A peninsula projects from the eastern shore of 

 the bay at about y% mile inside of Noddy point; deep water runs in 

 a narrow channel for about 800 yards inside this peninsula, where a 

 few small vessels obtain anchorage in 3^ fathoms water, good hold- 

 ing ground; westerly winds are violent, but the anchorage is safe, 

 and the sea with northerly winds does not fetch home. 



Garden cove, on the western side of the bay opposite the peninsula, 

 extends 500 yards to the westward, with shoal water about 150 yards 

 off its shores; it affords anchorage for small vessels in 16 feet of 

 water, sand bottom and fair holding ground, but an easterly swell 

 sometimes fetches in. 



The rest of the bay affords no shelter from the sea. 



Wood bay. — The northern end of Jacques Cartier island bears 

 eastward ^ mile from Noddy point, and Wood bay extends southward 

 1,600 yards from between them. The bay is open northward, and 

 affords no shelter. 



• Jacques Cartier island is 'i mile long, in a northerly and south- 

 erly direction, 300 yards wide at its broadest part, and 138 feet high ; 

 its southern end is separated from the mainland by a channel 50 

 yards wide, which can be used by boats. The northern and north- 



