414 CAPE BAULD TO CAPE ST. JOHN. 



otherwise this shore is clear. The 100 fathoms contour line is a 

 little more than 1 mile off, but at 2^ miles north-northwestward from 

 the northern point of Pigeon island there is a small bank with a 

 depth of 29 fathoms over it. 



Middle arm is an indentation extending southward nearly S^ 

 miles on the eastern side of Fish point. A bare, rocky islet, 6 feet 

 high, lies ^ mile within the point. Northward of the islet the arm 

 is fairly clear, but rocky shoals extend across the channel to the east- 

 ward, forming a bar of rocks and bowlders. A narrow and crooked 

 channel, carrying 18 feet of water, passes through the bar, but it is 

 only fit for small vessels, and even these require local knowledge or 

 must place buoys. 



Inside the bar the middle of the channel has a depth of 3^ fathoms 

 for about ^ mile, when it deepens to 9 fathoms in the narrowest part. 



Within the narrow part, the arm opens out to a wudth of ^ mile, 

 with depths of 24 to 36 fathoms and clear of shoals. At the head is 

 the mouth of a fair-sized stream, and a mud flat, drj^ at low water, 

 extends for f mile from it. 



A narrow boat channel runs toward the river mouth along the 

 eastern shore. 



The shores of Middle arm are high and wooded. A small fishing 

 settlement exists near the entrance, some of the houses being on the 

 eastern side near the outer point, and some on the western side on the 

 inner point of the narrows. 



The shore from Middle arm trends north-northeastward for 2^ 

 miles to Crow head, the western entrance point of Southern arm. It 

 is high, rocky, and steep-to except westward of Crow^ head, where 

 two patches of rocks, nearly awash, lie at distances of 50 and 100 

 yards from the shore. The depth of 10 fathoms is close outside the 

 outer patch. 



Southern arm. — Flat point lies eastward ^ mile from Crow head: 

 the south w^estern part of Southern arm head lies east-northeastward 

 1,100 yards from Flat point, and within this line Southern arm 

 extends southeastward 1,400 yards, and then southward 1,800 yards 

 to the bar, its width gradually decrea.sing to 435 yards. It is an 

 excellent harbor, free from shoals and affording good sheltered 

 anchorage. Its shores are high and thickly wooded, but on the east- 

 ern side near its head there is a small area of lower land, and here 

 there are a few houses with some little patches of cultivation. 



There are a few houses in Pumbley cove, an open bight on the 

 southwestern shore at about 1,200 yards within Flat point. 



Cheese hill, conical, thickly wooded, and 235 feet high, is situated 

 on the western side of the arm at ly^o miles within Flat point, and is 

 conspicuous. At its foot the arm contracts to a width of 200 yards. 



