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may be approached closely because the rocks extending from it are 

 visible. 



Tides and tidal streams. — It is high water, full and change, 

 in Sops arm, at 7h. Om. ; springs rise 4f feet, neaps 2f feet. 



There is considerable diurnal inequality in the height of the tide, 

 which, however, principally affects high water. Consecutive high 

 waters vary up to 18 inches, and low waters from 3 to 6 inches. 



The tidal streams are weak in South channel, but their rate 

 through the Tickle is at times appreciable. Between Hauling point 

 and Sops island, and also at the anchorage northeastward of Georges 

 island, the stream has been observed to set northeastward for days 

 continuously, and on the western side of White bay the north-going 

 stream is almost constant. 



Main brook is a considerable stream flowing into the northwest- 

 ern corner of Sops arm. Nearly 1 mile from its mouth the stream 

 enters a low flat, forming a delta with numerous marshy islets, and 

 here it is joined by Doucers brook, a stream coming from the south- 

 westward, through a valley at the foot of a range of high, densely 

 wooded hills. The outer islets of the delta are fronted by gravel 

 flats, and numerous large bowlders, to a distance of | mile; outside 

 these, the bank falls steeply to depths of 30 fathoms and more. 



Giles cove is in the western part of Sops arm, ^ mile southwest- 

 ward of Main brook; shoal water extends from its shores for about 

 70 yards, but it affords fair, though close, anchorage for moderate- 

 sized vessels. Large vessels occasionally anchor off this cove in about 

 15 fathoms. 



Country cove. — A bight southeastward of Giles cove forms Burnt 

 Head and Country coves. Corner brook flows northward from some 

 ponds into Country cove, and at its mouth is a dam for the purpose 

 of the sawmill which stands on the eastern side of the entrance. Near 

 this mill are several buildings, and there is a small jetty with a tram- 

 way for loading timber, which is cut in quantities in the adjacent 

 valleys and floated down Corner and Main brooks. The water in 

 these coves is shoal for about 150 yards from the shore, and then 

 deepens quickly to 30 and 40 fathoms, consequently there is no con- 

 venient anchorage. A vessel might anchor off Burnt Head cove in 20 

 fathoms, but she would swing very close in. 



Pig-eon islets, lying f mile east-northeastward from the jetty in 

 Country cove, are two rocks, close together, 14 feet high and wooded. 

 Shoal water extends northward about 100 yards from them, and 

 though there is a passage between them and the shore, carrying 14 to 

 15 feet water, it is narrow and must not be attempted. 



Baileys cove lies just eastw^ard of Pigeon islets. Its shore from 

 the point inside the islets to Mohawk point is foul for 150 yards, and 

 there are some ledges which dry at low w^ater. Southward of Mohawk 



