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marked by ripples. Another shoal lies northward, distant 300 yards 

 from Brehat shoal, and has 6^ fathoms water over it. 



Clearing marks. — Camel island smnmit in line with White cape, 

 •bearing 0^, leads westward; and Goose cape open southward of 

 French point. 222°, leads southeastward of these shoals. 



Tidal streams. — The streams are variable in the locality of 

 Brehat shoal, but they appear to have an increased rate over its 

 plateau, which is indicated by the eddies. 



French point lies southward 3 miles from Brehat point, and im- 

 mediately westward of it is French bay, a bight about 800 yards 

 across and open southward. 



Cape St. Anthony is situated 1 mile south.westward from French 

 point. 



St. Mein bay extends northwestward 3 miles on the western side 

 of cape St. Anthony, and is IJ miles wide at its entrance between that 

 cape and Fox point, the western entrance point. The water is deep, 

 and the bay completely open southward ; there is a small fishing- 

 village on its northeastern side, at If miles within cape St. Anthonj'. 



Ice. — St. JVIein bay freezes about the end of Xovember, and the ice 

 clears in May. 



Fox point is low, and appears more so from contrast to St. 

 Anthony hill, westward 800 3'ards from it, which is 413 feet high, 

 and faced by a l)lack cliff. 



St. Anthony harbor entrance is ^ mile northwestward of Fox 

 point, and it can only be distinguished when close to. The harbor 

 extends southwestward 550 yards with a breadth of 335 yards, and 

 then turns northwestAvard I5 miles, gradually widening to about 

 500 yards. 



.\t 1)00 yards westward from Egg point, the southern entrance 

 point, just beyond where the harbor commences to bend to the north- 

 westward, and nearly in mid-channel, are Piquennais rocks, joined to 

 the southern shore by a bank. Neither these rocks nor the northeast- 

 ern shore are quite steep-to. but the harbor may be entered in the fair- 

 way between them, and affords good anchorage in G to fathoms 

 water, mud bottom. 



A small white hut on the northwestern point of the southwestern 

 side of the harbor, bearing 290°, leads through the narrow channel 

 abreast the rocks. 



It is often difficult to get a long vessel into this harbor on account 

 of the boats and fishing vessels anchored off the turning point, par- 

 ticularly with winds across the harbor, and the space is narrovv for 

 turning. The wind blowing in eddies from the high lands round the 

 harbor is very batlling for a sailing vessel making the entrance. 



Light. — A fixed white light is exhibited from a lantern hoisted on 

 a white open framework on Egg point from June to December. 



