GREAT VEEDON ISLAND-^FICHOT HAEBOE. 381 



Melier rock, bearing- ISO"", distant 200 yards from Melier islet, has 

 4^ fathoms water over it; and Melier shoal, bearing 100°, distant 400 

 yards from Melier islet, has 5^ fathoms water over it. 



Great Verdon island, southward, ^ mile from the western end 

 of Great Cormorandier island, is 121 feet high and nearly steep-to 

 around. 



Little Verdon island, southward, 335 yards from Great Verdon 

 island, with a clear channel between, is 72 feet high and also nearly 

 steep-to. 



Massacre islet, bearing 256°, distant 1,250 yards from Melier 

 islet, is a bare rock; there is a patch at about 100 yards eastward of 

 the islet with 3|- fathoms of water over it. 



Ma,ssacre rock, bearing 162', distant 300 yards from Massacre 

 islet, has 5 feet least water over it. 



Monk islet, bearing 222°, distant f mile from Massacre islet, 

 is a bare rock lighter in color than ]Massacre islet. 



Monk rock, bearing 73°, distant 900 yards from Monk islet, is 

 awash at low water. 



Little Monk rock, bearing 50°. distant 200 yards from Monk 

 rock, has 13 feet water over it. 



Ship shoal, bearing 280°, distant 1,200 yards from Monk islet, has 

 4^ fathoms water over it. 



Corlet shoal, bearing 4°, distant COO yards from Monk islet, has 

 6^ fathoms water over it. 



Northeast island is in two parts, which together are f mile long, 

 in a northerl}" and southerly direction, and from 200 to 500 yards 

 wide. Le Galas, the northern part, has shoal water extending north- 

 ward 150 yards from it, leaving a passage about 100 yards wide, with 

 deep water between it and Little Verdon island. The eastern coasts 

 of both parts are nearly bold-to, and that of the southern part rises 

 abruptly from cape Croix to a remarkable dome-shaped hill 177 

 feet high. 



Beacon. — The hill within cape Croix has a beacon on it. 



Fichot island, the largest of the group, is 1^ miles long, in a 

 northerly and southerly direction, about i% mile wide, but of irregu- 

 lar shape; its western coast, which rises steeply to the height of 194 

 feet, is steep-to. 



Fichot harbor, lying between Fichot and Northeast islands, is 

 entered by two passages; from the northwestward between Watering 

 Cove point and Frommy island, and from the eastward b}' Flago 

 pass, between Northeast island and the southeastern part of Fichot 

 island, in which pass there is a depth of 8 feet. This harbor is only 

 r.vailable for small vessels as the channel is narrow, the turns sharp, 

 and the anchorage shallow and limited; there is a flagstaff on each 



