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The southern side of South cove is a narrow peninsuhi surmounted 

 by a little wooded hill, with a fishing establishment at the isthmus, 

 which is only 55 yards across. 



Gentille islet, 100 yards northward of the peninsula, is small, low, 

 and rock}^ ; shoal water continues nortliAvard 200 yards from it ; shoals 

 extend 2G5 yards northwestward of French island and lie off the 

 channel separating the island from the peninsula. 



Anchorage. — South cove, about 500 yards across, affords anchor- 

 age in 5 fathoms water, sand bottom, with good shelter, inside Gen- 

 tille islet, in a position from which the eastern end of Guibert islet 

 bears 336°, and northern side of Gentille islet bears 72°. Small craft 

 can anchor farther southeastward. 



Northeasterly winds bring a sea into North cove. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, at Coachman harbor 

 at 7h. 16m. ; springs rise about 4 feet. 



Communication. — The steamer from Tilt cove calls at Coach- 

 man harbor weekly during sunnner and autumn. 



Islets. — A yellow-colored islet with a little grass on its summit 

 lies in the middle of bay Verte at 3:^ miles within French island; it is 

 steep-to. Duck islet, wooded, lies 1 mile soutliwe^twai'd from the 

 yellow islet, and there is a shoal, with 9 feet of water over it, 350 yards 

 off its northeastern point; on this islet small seams of copper have 

 been found. Do not pass between the yellow islet and Duck islet, but 

 keep on the shore of the bay eastward of them, and when southward 

 of Duck islet keep in mid-channel. 



Copper mine. — A large and valuable copper and sulphur mine 

 near the head of the bay is being worked by an American company 

 named the Terra Nova Mining Company. About 200 men are work- 

 ing at the mine. 



Pier. — Near the head of the bay is a pier 400 feet long and 100 

 feet broad at its end, extending off the northwestern shore; there is 

 a depth of fathoms at its end, and hawsers can bs laid out to the 

 shore and to a hauling-off buoy. A light railway connects th(> pier 

 with the copper mine, about 2 miles distant. 



Anchorag'e may be obtained in 13 fathoms of water, mud bottom 

 and good holding ground, a little northeastward of the second point 

 on the western shore within French island, which is bordered by 

 v\hite rocks. There is good anchorage at 200 to. 300 yards southward 

 of the pier in 9^ to 12 fathoms, mud bottom, where the holding 

 ground is gos)d and it is quite landlocked. In northerly gales the sea 

 IS said to break as far in the bay as Duck islet. 



Communication. — The mail steamer calls here twice a fortnight. 

 ' Islet. — A low islet is situated on the southeastern shore at 1 J- miles 

 within the southeastern entrance point, which is bare. 



