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Alexander rock bears 228°, 400 yards from Gull rock, and a shoal, 

 Avith a depth of 3| fathoms water, extends northeastward 150 yards 

 from it. 



Seal island, 80 feet high, lies soutliAvestward, 600 yards from Alex- 

 ander rock, and Riding, Fox, and Duck islands lie between, all being 

 connected by shoal water and rocks. 



Geen island, 90 feet high, lies north-northwestward, a little over 

 100 yards from Seal island. 



Light. — -A square lighthouse, about 31 feet high and painted white, 

 with one red horizontal band, on Seal island, exhibits at 111 feet 

 above high water a fixed red light which should be seen from a dis- 

 tance of 17 miles in clear weather. 



The light tower rises from the middle of the keeper's dwelling. 

 The light is shown during the season of open navigation. 



Nippers harbor. — The entrance to this harbor, between Harbor 

 point and a point west-southwestward of it, is 250 yards wide, and the 

 harbor extends thence northwestward for 400 yards, where it is 

 crossed by an island, beyond Avhich are two basins. The harbor 

 affords anchorage for moderate-sized vessels in 10 to 12 fathoms 

 water, mud bottom, and ringbolts have been fixed in the rocks for 

 convenience in mooring. The shores are bold, with the exception of 

 a rock about 65 yards westward of Harbor point and a rock close to 

 the western entrance point. 



The western basin has shoal water extending from a brook in its 

 western corner, leaving an anchorage, with good shelter for small 

 vessels, 100 yards across, with 5 to 6 fathoms of water in it. The 

 eastern basin of Nippers harbor dries across the mouth at low water, 

 but is 4 to 5 fathoms deep within the bar. 



There is a small village with a church on the southwestern shores 

 of the harbor, and a chapel, painted yellow, stands on a hill above the 

 western entrance point. 



Communication. — The steamer of the Notre Dame bay route from 

 Burnt bay calls at Nijjpers harbor weekly during summer and 

 autumn. 



There is a telegraph station here. 



Noble head, a promontory of dark gray rock, 200 yards in, width, 

 with a flat summit 215 feet high and covered Avith grass, extends 

 eastward 700 yards from the shore line at | mile southward of 

 Nippers harbor entrance. A ledge on which there are two remarkable 

 pinnacle rocks runs east-southeastward nearly 200 yards from its 

 southeastern end, and, bearing 70°, distant 400 yards from the south- 

 eastern end, is a bank with 11 feet least water over it, from which 

 there are depths of 3^ fathoms for 200 yards westward. 



Noble cove, on the northern side of Noble head, is fringed by rocks, 

 open to easterly Avinds, and unfit for anchorage. 



