SHOET POINT SHOAL EGBERTS ARM. 445 



Short Point shoal is a detached patch of rocks, lying 200 yards 

 off Short point, with depths of 2^ fathoms between it and the shore. 

 The outer part of the rocks dries 2 feet at low water. 



Spencers dock is the name given to a series of small bights in the 

 western coast of Pilley island at 1^ miles from Short point. In these 

 are several houses, and a good road leads to Pilley Island harbor. 



Off the northern of these bights there is a small islet and some dry 

 rocks, but there are no shoals except those fringing the coast. 



Haywards Gull island, small, rocky, partmlly wooded and 178 

 feet high, fronts the entrance to Flat Rock tickle at a distance oi ^ 

 mile from it. At 200 yards off its western end there is a rocky shoal, 

 with a depth of only 3 feet over it, and the passage, with about 3 

 fathoms of water in it, between it and the island is narrow. The 

 northern and eastern sides of the island are clear, but a small shoal 

 extends about 60 yards off the southern side. 



Between this island and the entrance to Flat Rock tickle, as well as 

 off the adjacent coast of Pilley island, the water is deep and clear of 

 shoals. 



The coast from Haywards head trends southwestward forming 

 several coves, the two largest of which, Moorey cove and Bear cove, 

 have some houses and landing stages, but very little fishing is done 

 in this locality, and the people are generally dependent for work on 

 the pyrites mine at Pilley island. Most of the houses are surrounded 

 by small patches of cultivated land. 



Roberts arm lies in an angle on the coast southward of Bear 

 cove. It is small but perfectly sheltered and affords excellent anchor- 

 age in 8 to 10 fathoms, mud bottom. It is not difficult of access if 

 the directions are carefully followed. The northwestern portion of 

 the harbor is occupied by flats of sand and mud, but the remainder 

 is fairly clear. 



Harbor islet, small and 35 feet high, lies off the southwestern side 

 of the arm. 



There are several houses around the arm and a steam sawmill and 

 a building slip for small vessels southward of a small rocky knoll on 

 the western side. 



Three-quarters of a mile westward of Roberts arm there are some 

 extensive ponds, on the shores of which copper deposits have been 

 worked, and a road connects the nearest pond with the harbor. The 

 mines have been abandoned for some years. 



Shoals. — A low, wooded point forms the southern side of Moorey 

 cove, and fronting the bight just southward of it is a small rock, 1 

 foot high. Bearing 180°, distant 400 yards from the same point, is 

 a shoal with 2 feet water over it. 



Nearly 600 yards west-southwestward of this shoal and upward of 

 200 yards from a low, woody head forming the outer northern en- 



