450 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



called Muddy hole; it then bends sharply westward into Bumblebee 

 cove, a deep bight, the head of which is separated from Pilley Island 

 harbor by an isthmus, 150 yards across. There are several rocks at 

 the entrance to this cove, with a good passage between them and its 

 northeastern point. A rock lies in the middle of the cove, and only 

 small vessels should enter it. 



Heads harbor. — Eastward of the narrow part of Pilley tickle 

 the Troytown island coast forms some small rocky coves, fronted by 

 shallow water, and then turns southeastward around a low and 

 narrow projecting headland, making Heads harbor, a shallow bight 

 with some houses round it. A small rocky islet. 5 feet high, used 

 as a leading mark, lies oif the headland. 



Beyond Heads harbor the coast continues foul, and off this part of 

 it, at a distance of 350 yards, there is a wooded islet, 65 feet high, also 

 used as a leading mark. 



Big" island, densely wooded, generally cliffy, and 280 feet high, 

 is close to the eastern side of the channel. Shoals extend '200 yards 

 off its low, northwestern point, and as they lie in an angle of the 

 channel, with a distance of only 100 yards between them and the 

 shoals of Bumblebee cove, caution is necessary. The small islet off 

 Heads harbor in line with the western point of the wooded islet south- 

 westward of Big island, bearing 174°, leads in the channel between 

 these shoals. 



Northeastward of Big island the channel presents no special 

 dangers until nearing Dogfish point. No-good island, small, wooded, 

 :'.nd 75 feet high, lies off the w^estern shore; its southeastern side is 

 steep, but in the fairway between it and Troytown island there is a 

 small rock with a depth of 15 feet over it. 



Dogfish point bears northeastward ^ mile from Xo-good island. 

 It is thickly wooded and bold, but directly off it the channel, which 

 here narrows to 500 yards, is obstructed by Dogfish rock, a patch of 

 rocks over which the least water is 3 feet. The available passage 

 eastward of Dogfish rock is consequently only about 100 yards in 

 width, and, though the rocks may usually be seen, it requires caution. 



A conspicuous white patch on the cliffs of Long island twice its own 

 breadth open of the Avestern tangent of the passage leads clear of the 

 rock off Xo-good island, and between Dogfish point and rock, but 

 •close to the rock. 



Northward of Dogfish point Pilley tickle is clear of shoals. 



Stuckey cove, on the eastern side of Pilley island at about a mile 

 north-northwestward of Dogfish point, is deep beyond 100 yards from 

 its shores, and it affords anchorage in 10 to 20 fathoms water. 



A densely wooded hill, 510 feet high, lies southwestward 800 yards 

 from Stuckey cove, and on its western slope is a large and conspicuous 

 pine tree. 



