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western points of the island are steep-to, but a rocky shoal extends 

 nearly 100 yards off the shore jnst eastward of the northern point. 

 There are several fishing establishments on the island, with their 

 stages on its southern part. 



Kirpon island. — (See also p. 367.) 



Cape Bauld, the southern entrance point of Belleisle strait, and the 

 northern point of Kirpon island, bears 188°, distant Hi miles from 

 the southernmost point of Belleisle. (For description, light, fog- 

 signal, and tidal streams, see p. 367.) 



Tidal streams. — The inshore tidal streams are irregular between 

 Kirpon island and cape Onion, but ordinarily the flood sets westward, 

 and the ebb eastward, and when the stream goes with the wind it 

 attains a rate of about one knot. 



The coast of Kirpon island from cape Bauld trends southwestward 

 1^% miles to Grapnel cove, a small indentation; it then continues 

 south-southwestward 1 mile to Dumenil point; from this point it 

 turns about south-southeastward ly'^o miles to the southern extremity 

 of the island, and forms the eastern side of Kirpon harbor. 



At about i mile southward of Dumenil point is a group of low 

 rocks, with a reef extending nearly 400 yards southwestward of them, 

 and leaving a clear passage 200 j^ards wide between the reef and 

 Jacques Cartier island. There is a fishing establishment on Kirpon 

 island, eastward of these rocks. 



Merchant island, 600 yards southeastward of the rocks, is low and 

 attached to Kirpon island ; there is a fishing establishment on it. 



Morne Fontan. ^ mile southeastward of Merchant island, is a con- 

 spicuous hill 105 feet high. 



Kirpon harbor, situated between Jacques Cartier and Kirpon 

 islands, affords excellent anchorage. 



Vincent islet, 600 yards eastward of the southern end of Jacques 

 Cartier island and 200 yards northeastward of a point of the main- 

 land, is 16 feet high and covered with grass. The passage between it 

 and the main to the southwestward has a depth of 15 feet in its fair- 

 way, which is tortuous. 



Peaked rock, 100 yards northwestward of point Verte, on the 

 southeastern side of the harbor, covers at high water. 



Canias rock, 400 yards northward of point Verte, is above water. 

 It is reported (1896) that the depth 300 yards west-northwestward of 

 this rock is about 3 feet less than shown on the charts. 



Beacons. — There is a beacon on the western part of Merchant 

 island, and 400 yards east-southeastward of it and near the summit 

 of a hill 118 feet high on Kirpon island is a white staff with a black 

 ball on the top. 



Three beacons are placed on the mainland, southwestward of Vin- 

 cent islet; the outer or northernmost beacon is a pile of stones sur- 



