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than 400 yards. A cluster of small islets and rocks lies southward 

 of the island and between them there is a passage about 200 yards 

 wide which is navigable, but it is more prudent to leave the whole 

 group to the northward. 



Big- island, about 400 yards in length northward and southward, 

 and 199 feet high, is the northwestern of a group of islands and rocks 

 on the northern side of Troytown island. From its eastern end, Cob- 

 bler rocks extend eastward to Cobbler island. 



Cobbler island, about 400 yards eastward of Big island, is 1,400 

 yards long, eastward and westward, and 163 feet high. 



Cobbler tickle, between Cobbler island and Dark Tickle island, is 

 entered from the westward, and affords good anchorage in 6 to 17 

 fathoms water, the soundings decreasing gradually from the latter 

 dej)th to the islets and rocks that fill its eastern end. Hynes rock, 

 with 6 feet Avater over it, bears 207°, distant 600 yards from the west- 

 ern end of Cobbler island. 



Dark Tickle island, southeastward of Cobbler island, rises to a 

 round hill, 223 feet high; on the northern hill of the island are two 

 conspicuous trees, 132 feet above the sea. 



Dark tickle, the passage between Dark Tickle island and Troytown 

 island, is clear, with the exception of AYliite Ground shoal extending 

 about 200 yards from the southeastern end of the island, nearly joined 

 to the eastern end of Dark Tickle island, and a bank with 13 feet 

 water on it, situated 150 yards northeastward from the first cove 

 southeastward of the western narrows. The narroAvest part of Dark 

 tickle is 100 yards wide, and the depth of water is not less than 6 

 fathoms in midchannel. 



Great Troytown harbor, entered between Dark Tickle point, 

 the southern entrance point of Dark tickle, and Big Troytown island, 

 extends southwestward for If miles, with several bends. 



The head of Troytown harbor is divided into two coves by a 

 wooded island 190 feet high and a promontory of Troytown island. 

 West arm is available only for boats; Butler cove, the southern arm, 

 suitable for small vessels only, is entered through a narrow channel 

 between rocks extending from both entrance jDoints. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage in 7 to 17 fathoms water in 

 a cove situated on the eastern side of Great Troytown harbor and 

 southward of a low sharp point rising to a wooded hill 185 feet high. 



Water. — There are several houses in this cove, and Avater may be 

 obtained from a brook close to the houses. 



Communication. — The steamer from Burnt bay calls at Great 

 Troytown harbor weekly during summer and autumn. 



Little Troytown harbor, the western entrance of which lies east- 

 southeastward 1,200 yards from Dark Tickle point, is 850 yards long 



