BIRD ISLAND COVE LOCK HAEBOR. 459 



Bird Island cove. — At 100 yards off the southern entrance point 

 of Jnlies harbor is Goat island, a small, wooded island 40 feet high, 

 and between it and a long narrow promontory, terminating north- 

 eastward in Woody point and situated about 600 yards southeast- 

 ward of the island, is Bird Island cove. It is often too open eastward 

 to afford anchorage. 



Big-ht. — On the southeastern side of Woody point promontory is 

 a deep bight, the eastern side of the outer part of which is bounded 

 by Gull island. Toward its head this bight contracts to a narrow 

 channel, within which it opens out into Shoal arm, an extensive area 

 almost filled with flats of sand, mud, and shells. A stream runs into 

 the southwestern end of this arm, but in consequence of dams having 

 been built across it for driving logs, the outflow is generally small. 



A small islet lies just inside the narrow channel and from either 

 end of it a floating boom reaches to the shore northeastward and 

 southwestward ; the logs driven down the stream are retained within 

 the boom for the mill at Pennys brook. 



Bearing 45°, distant 350 yards from the southern entrance point of 

 the narrow channel and 150 yards from the shore, there is a rock with 

 a depth of 3 feet over it. With this exception the bight is free from 

 shoals, but it is open to the easterly swell which frequently prevails, 

 and therefore it is not suitable for anchorage. 



Anchorage.- — The eastern part of the passage betAveen the south- 

 ern end of Gull island and the mainland is occupied by some small 

 islands and rocks. AVestward of these there is sheltered anchorage in 

 11 to 13 fathoms, mud bottom, in a space about 400 yards wide; it 

 is easy of access from the westward, and is entirely sheltered, even 

 during strong easterly gales. 



This anchorage can also be entered from the eastward, but it is 

 inadvisable to take that passage without local knowledge. 



Beaver bight, southward of Gull island, is open and unfit for 

 anchorage. 



Wild bight is the southern part of Badger bay ; the water is deep 

 in it, and there are no shoals beyond a distance of 300 yards from 

 the shore, though a small 7-fathom bank lies in the fairway of its 

 approach. 



Pennys brook, a small stream, flows into the western side of Wild 

 bight; here there is a steam sawmill and several houses, off Avhicli 

 fairly good anchorage may be had in 18 to 20 fathoms. 



The eastern shore of Badger bay from Wild bight to Cannon 

 head, a distance of 5^ miles, is high, cliffy, and densely wooded, with 

 deep water close to the rocks. 



Lock harbor is a small bight lying 1| miles southwestward of 

 White point, the eastern entrance head of -Badger bay. Some low 

 rocks lie off the entrance, and the space inside is very limited and 



