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and 450 yards wide, and affords good anchorage in 9 fathoms water, 

 sand bottom. 



The northeastern entrance is 60 yards wide, and a rock with 15 

 feet water over it lies in mid-channel, bnt there is a depth of 5 fath- 

 oms close to the eastern shore. 



There is a small settlement around the harbor. 



Water may be procured from a brook discharging into a small 

 cove on the southern shore. 



Tides. — It is high Avater, full and change, in Troytown harbor at 

 7h, 5m. ; springs rise 4^ feet, neaps 3 feet. 



Ragged point is the northern end of the northeastern promon- 

 tory of Troytown island. 



Little Dunier island, east-northeastwarcl ^ mile from Ragged 

 point promontory, is a wooded island about 600 yards in diameter, 

 with a flat summit 220 feet high; the coast line is deeply fissured. 

 Islets and shoals extending southwestward from the southern ex- 

 tremity of the island, and the islet 27 feet high with the shoal east- 

 ward of it off the eastern point of Eagged Point promontory, narrow 

 the channel between them, in which there are depths of 11 to 14 

 fathoms, to a width of 150 yards. 



League rock, northeastward, distant 1-^^ miles from Little Dunier 

 island, is in two parts, separated by a narrow cleft; it is about 40 feet 

 high ; shoal water extends 300 yards west-southwestward of the rock. 

 A patch of rocks, 8 feet high, lies east-northeastward 300 yards from 

 League rock, and there is a depth of 4^ fathoms in the passage between 

 them. The rocks are situated on a bank extending 3^ miles in an 

 easterly and westerlj^ direction, having general depths of 20 to 50 

 fathoms over it. but with several patches of 6f to 19 fathoms, and n 

 confused sea is produced in heavy weather. 



Grand Dismal cove, southward of Ragged point promontory, 

 must not be entered without a pilot, as rocks surround the shores, and 

 the Sisters reef extends northeastward 250 yards from Sisters point, 

 the southern entrance point. A small islet, 27 feet high, lies close 

 to the northern entrance point, from which rocks extend east-south- 

 eastward for the distance of 200 yards. 



Tom Cod rock, with 13 feet water over it, is situated in the middle 

 of Grand Dismal cove, and bears 163°, distant 650 yards fi'om the 

 islet off its northern entrance point, and a bank, with 2^ to 7 fathoms 

 water over it, extends 256°, 750 yards from the rock. 



Great Dunier island, 1,400 yards long in an easterly and westerly 

 direction and 221 feet high, is situated southward about f mile from 

 Little Dunier island. 



Light. — A fixed red light is exhibited from a wooden frame, 15 

 feet high, near the eastern end of Great Dunier island, at 210 feet 



