432 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



Middle arm is 1.600 yards wide at its entrance, and it extends 

 westward for 2 miles to the sandy spit at the end of the first reach, 

 beyond which there is barely passage for a boat. 



Anchorage. — At 1-h miles within the entrance the arm narrows 

 to 800 yards in breadth, and this is the eastern limit of the anchorage 

 in 16 fathoms; for ^ mile farther westward, there is anchorage in 

 14 to 10 fathoins water, good holding ground. 



Southwest arm, the entrance to which is between the southern 

 entrance point of Middle arm and Birchy Cove head, at about 1,400 

 yards to the southeastward, extends soutliAvestward for 6| miles, and 

 then turns southward for 2^ miles. The water in the arm is generally 

 deep. 



Naked man, a pillar of rock 14 feet high, stands close to the south- 

 eastern shore at 2^ miles southwestward of Birchy Cove head. 



There are copper mines on each side of this rock, the localities of 

 which are indicated by the liouses on the shore: tlie mine stiuated next 

 southwestward of Naked man has a Avharf. 



Anchorages. ^ — Corner brook cove is situated on the western shore 

 of the arm at 6^ miles within the entrance. Stearin rock, a small 

 islet 13 feef high, is on the southern side of the cove, and Rattling 

 brook, a waterfall, descends into its northern side. Anchorage may 

 be obtained here by small vessels in 18 fathoms water, but the holding 

 ground is not good. 



At lyV miles southward of Stearin rock is a point projecting 

 slightly from the line of the coast. A shoal with 11 feet of water 

 over it extends in a northeasterly direction nearly I mile from this 

 point. 



Manful point is a projection of shingle on the eastern shore oppo- 

 site Corner Brook cove. Anchorage for large vessels may be ob- 

 tained, on a plateau extending from the shore southward of this 

 point, in depths of 20 fathoms at the distance of 650 yards and 10 

 fathoms at ^ mile, respectively, from the shore, Avith good holding 

 ground. 



King point, near the head of Southwest arm, is low and flat, with 

 a few houses on it and some land under cultivation. The head dries 

 200 yards from the high-water line, and the depth increases sud- 

 denly beyond to 15 fathoms. South brook lies a mile east of the 

 head and is a fine stream, draining the valley leading to Halls bay. 

 The deposit from the brook dries at low water for a distance of 300 

 yards from the mouth, and the water deepens suddenly beyond. 



Tides.- — It is high water, full and change, in Southwest arm at 

 7h. 8m. 



Telegraph station.^ — There is a telegraph station on the western, 

 shore, near the head of the arm. 



