MAN-OF-WAR EOCK BURNT ISLAND. 463 



plan, the shoulder of a hill in line with the eastern end of Goat island, 

 bearing 190°, if identified, leads through a clear channel, about 100 

 yards wide, between the outer shoals in not less than 5^ fathoms; 

 when distant 500 3^ards from Goat island, haul to the eastward to 

 clear the shoals off the northeastern side of that island. 



Man-of-war rock is a small rocky islet, 12 feet high, and steep-to. 

 Eastward about 100 yards from it there is an extensive patch which 

 dries at low water. 



Ward island, northeastward, 400 yards from Man-of-war rock, 

 is 900 wards long, in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, 

 about ^ mile wide and 233 feet high. It is almost steep-to, except at 

 its northeastern end, where shoal water of 21 feet connects it with 

 Blackberry island. 



Blackberry island, small and 38 feet high, is 150 yards north- 

 eastward of Ward island; shoal water extends northeastward 300 

 yards from it. 



Shoal. — A patch of 2'^ fathoms bears 18°, distant 550 yards from 

 Blackberry island, and nearly 200 yards offshore. 



Leading or Ladle tickles. — The coast from Cnmlins head trends 

 roughly north-northeastward 1^-^ miles to the Ladle, and thence east- 

 ward nearly 2 miles to Wild Bight point ; northward of it is a group 

 of islands, and Leading or Ladle tickles are the passages between the 

 se vera r islands and the mainland. The southern passage is suitable 

 for small vessels only. 



Light. — A circular iron tower, 18 feet high, painted red and white 

 in horizontal bands, on the southern headland of the eastern entrance 

 to Leading or Lading tickles, exhibits, at 83 feet above high water, 

 an intermittent white light, showing thus: Light seven seconds, 

 eclipse three seconds; which should be seen from a distance of 10 

 miles in clear weather. 



A dwelling and a store, painted white, stand a short distance west- 

 ward of them. 



Communication. — The steamer from Burnt bay calls at Leading- 

 tickles during summer and autumn. 



Burnt island, the northwestern of the islands, is 1| miles long in 

 an east-northeasterly and west-southwesterly direction, about ^ mile 

 wide, and 250 feet high ; a ridge of rocks extends ^ mile eastward of it. 



Near the middle of the southern coast of the island is a small 

 projection, about 100 feet high, on which is a flagstaff, and a bank, 

 with two patches of 3 and 4r| fathoms over them, extends southeast- 

 w^ard 350 yards from this point. The southern side of Woody island 

 in line with the northern end of Bear head, bearing 64°, leads south- 

 ward of these shoals and very close northward of those northward of 

 the western part of Cull island. 



