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channel, a shoal, with 4 to 5 fathoms of water over it, extends nearly 

 ^ mile from the southern coast of the eastern island. 



The eastern island is «dl4 miles long in a west-northweslerly and 

 east-southeasterly direction, and aJbout If miles wide; it attains a 

 height of 550 feet, but it appears flatter than the western island and 

 has a broken summit. 



The eastern coast of this island is foul for the distance of about J 

 mile and must be approached Avith caution : ^ mile off its southern 

 coast, bearing 261°, distant If miles from the southeastern point, is a 

 rock with a depth of less than 6 feet over it; and bearing 63°, distant 

 l-^\f miles from the eastern of the northern point, is a small rock above 

 water. 



On the southern coast, at about 1^ miles and If^ miles, respectively, 

 from the southeastern point of the island, there are two coves with 

 several houses around them, in which some 30 families permanently 

 reside. 



Small vessels anchor in the western cove, locally known as St. Barbe 

 harbor; but, though there are no shoals, there is very little room, and 

 the place is open to the southwestAvard. 



Cape Crapaud, situated southeastward, distant 3 miles from Par- 

 tridge point, is steep-to, and there are patches of white marble on 

 its southeastern side. Between this cape and Paradise point, which 

 bears south-southeastward, distant If miles from it, is the entrance of 

 a bay, the shores of which are steep-to, except off a cascade just west- 

 ward of Paradise point, where a rock lies 65 yards offshore. 



Paradise point is high and remarkable; Pigeon island lies close 

 northeastward of it. 



Fleur-de-lis harbor entrance is situated southwestward 1 mile 

 from cape Crapaud. and the harbor, though small, affords good, 

 sheltered anchorage. The entrance is difficult to distinguish excepji 

 on westerly bearings. 



Fleur-de-lis hill lies 2^ miles Avestward from the harbor entrance, 

 is 820 feet high, has three hummocks, Avhich give it a resemblance to 

 the top of a fleur-de-lis, and is remarkable. 



Directions. — Bring Fleur-de-lis hill to bear about westward, and 

 steer for it to the entrance ; then keep along the eastern shore, steer- 

 ing for the fishing establishment next eastward of Welch point, a 

 little cliff with some huts on it, to clear The Eock, Avhich has 8 feet 

 of water over it and lies in mid-channel; when Bear hill (a mound 

 144 feet high, situated westward of the basin) ojDens northward of 

 The Islet, bearing 283°, steer for Welch point to get in the middle of 

 the narrows and avoid the bank stretching off The Islet. When the 

 sinnmit of Fleur-de-lis hill is open a little nortliAvard of Bear hill, 



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