468 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



The shore northeastward of West Hare island is clear for nearly a 

 mile and rises in high, precipitous cliffs; beyond that it is fronted by 

 numerous islets and rocks which extend more or less to abreast Long 

 island. Gull rock, the southwesternmost and outer of this group, is 

 a large bowlder, 2 feet high. 



Passag"e. — There is a passage eastward of Long island but it is 

 advisable to keep on the northwestern shore. 



Besom island, small, flat, 42 feet high, and covered wdth grass, 

 is the outer land of the southeastern side of the entrance to North- 

 west arm. There are several rocks between the island and the adja- 

 cent shore, and the passage should not be attempted without local 

 knowledge. 



Besom cove is entered 800 yards southeastw^ard of Besom island 

 and extends southwestward about y^ mile; the water is 16 to 10 

 fathoms deep, but the anchorage space is very limited and the bottom 

 is rock}^ A patch of foul ground 400 yards in diameter lies close 

 northeastward of the western headland. 



Little Northwest arm extends southwestward If miles on the 

 southeastern side of the peninsula which forms Besom cove, and its 

 head is separated from Northwest arm by an isthmus a little more 

 than 200 yards across. Here the arm is occupied by a group of islets 

 and rocks. 



There is indifferent anchorage in about 25 fathoms just inside the 

 narrowest part of the arm, for which the chart is a sufficient guide. 



Little Northwest Arm head, the southern entrance point of 

 the arm, is steep, but a rock with 3 feet of water over it lies nearly 

 200 yards from the head, and there is a rock with 6 feet of water 

 over it between this 3 feet rock and the head. 



Ward head, a promontorj^ forming the southeastern side of Ward 

 cove, and lying southward | mile from Little Northwest Arm head, is 

 125 feet high, steep, and clear of shoals; from the northward it shows 

 as a detached conical summit under the higher land northwestward 

 of it. Ward cove is small, narrow, and generally shallow. 



Beaver Brook cove is a small bight southwestward 4^% miles from 

 Ward head. The shore between is clear, except that shoal water ex- 

 tends southward 300 yards from a small islet, 10 feet high, lying 

 south-southwestward, nearly 1 mile from Ward head. 



A rock, with a depth of 4 feet over it, lies in the middle of* the 

 entrance of Beaver Brook cove. 



There is a small water-power sawmill, with a few huts, on the 

 northern shore of the cove. 



West arm entrance is between Brimstone head, high, conspicuous, 

 and cliffy, and the land northwestward ^ mile from it, and the arm 

 extends southwestward for about 3 miles. There is a group of islands 

 at 2| miles inside of Brimstone head, and westward of them is a 



