460 CAPE ST. JOHISr TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



open to the northerly sea. There is a small settlement on the shore 

 of this harbor. 



White point, the eastern entrance head of Badger bay, is white 

 limestone rock projecting from the cliffy shore and joined to it by 

 a narrow neck. The point is 40 feet high and its summit is covered 

 with grass, forming a conspicuous contrast to the dark, wooded hills 

 behind it. 



Seal bay is the large bight eastward of Badger bay; it extends 

 southward for about 8 miles, and terminates in a shallow basin, 

 fronted by some islets, into which a small stream floMs. 



The middle of the bay is deep and free from shoals, but a heavy 

 sea rolls in during strong northerly winds. Indifferent anchorage 

 may be found, as hereinafter described. 



There are a few settlers in the bay, principally at Lockport on the 

 eastern side. 



Seal Bay head, the western entrance point of Seal bay, is a dark 

 cliff}^ headland, 180 feet high, and broken by the action of the sea 

 into several small coves. Immediately southward of the head is a 

 small bight, and at 500 yards northeastward of Inner Seal head, its 

 southern entrance point, is a patch of rocks, 9 feet high, with a clear 

 channel l^etween. 



Wild big-ht is west-southwestward of Inner Seal head, and the 

 water in it is deep and unfit for anchorage. A small rock, awash at 

 low water, lies about 70 yards from the cliffs, at about TOO yards 

 southwestward of Inner Seal head, and shoal water extends north- 

 eastward 150 yards and southward 100 yards from it. The head of 

 the bight forms a cove, about 135 yards in width, in which there are 

 some fishermen's houses which were unoccupied in 1901. 



Gull island, south-southwestward l^-^ miles from Inner Seal 

 head, is 184 feet high, with a bare grassy summit; its eastern and 

 western sides are steep, but a rocky ridge of foul ground extends 

 south-southwestward 600 yards from it, and terminates in a rock 12 

 feet high. There are two smaller islands, and some rocks which dry 

 at low water, between Gull island and the shore of the bay, which is 

 made up of wooded hills falling in steep cliffs. There is a fairly 

 good passage between these islands and rocks and Gull island, but it 

 is not recommended without local knowledge. 



Side harbor is a deep indentation on the western side of Seal 

 bay at 3 miles within Gull island. Its entrance is a good deal ob- 

 structed by shoals lying off the eastern side, but there is a fairly good 

 passage, 300 yards in width, westward of the shoals. Inside the 

 shoals there is anchorage in 15 to 21 fathoms, but the ground is rocky 

 and northeasterly gales throw in some sea. 



Mill cove, on the western side of Seal bay, at f mile from its 

 head, is narrow and shoal, but the only houses in this localitv are on 



