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provisions and stores may be obtained. Small repairs to steamers 

 have been executed, and castings have been made up to 20 tons, but 

 as the works have been closed these can not be relied on. 



There is a steam sawmill in the village at the head of the harbor. 



Cominunication, — Steamers, from and to Burnt bay, call twice 

 weekly during summer and autumn. (See p. 476.) There is an 

 irregular overland mail service during winter. The nearest telegraph 

 office is at Little bay, to go to or come from which a messenger takes 

 about four hours in fine weather ; the charge for delivery is $3. 



Outer anchorage. — There is anchorage in 18 to 20 fathoms, mud 

 bottom, 600 yards eastward of the middle of Fox island, but the hold- 

 ing ground is not good. Avoid anchoring on Callaghans ground, 

 which, with depths of 6 to 10 fathoms, extends about | mile parallel 

 to, and 200 yards distant from, the western side of Pretty island ; on 

 this the bottom consists of smooth rocks, and vessels are liable to drag. 



Ice.^ — The first vessels arrive about the middle of May and the 

 last usually leave about Christmas. 



Buzzard shoal, over which the least depth is 2 feet, lies 300 yards 

 southward of Bridges island and is separated from the shoal extend- 

 ing northeastward from Fox island by a channel 150 yards wide, 

 with a depth of 6 to 8 fathoms in it. 



Reynolds shoal, over which there is a depth of 11 feet, bears 110°, 

 distant 325 yards from the southern end of Bridges island, and 61°, 

 350 yards from Buzzard shoal, with a deep channel between. 



Ledrew rock is a small pinnacle with a depth of 18 feet over it, 

 lying in the fairway of the harbor channel, directl}^ off Penns cove. 



Picnic and Graveyard islands mark the ship channel to the 

 inner anchorage, both being nearly steep-to on their northwestern 

 sides. 



Directions. — When abreast Margesson island, bring the Salvation 

 Army barracks, a long house with a red roof standing by itself, twice 

 its own length inside the extreme of the western point of the Narrows, 

 bearing 359°, to pass between Buzzard and Fox shoals. Then keep 

 along the western side of Bridges island, at about 100 yards distant, 

 until the Methodist chapel (to the right of the Salvation Army bar- 

 racks) is just open eastward of Picnic island, bearing 359°, to clear 

 Ledrew rock. Thence a mid-channel course, passing westward of the 

 islands, leads to the anchorage. 



Or keep along the coast of Pretty island until the southern point of 

 Penns cove is in line with the southwestern end of Bridges island, 

 bearing 327°, which mark leads between Buzzard and Reynolds 

 shoals ; round the southwestern end of Bridges island and proceed as 

 above. 



The space in the harbor is limited, and vessels should moor or lie 

 at single anchor, with sterns fast to one of the numerous ringbolts 



