470 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



1^ miles and thence northeastward 1^ miles to a headland 250 yards 

 off which is Strong island ; it is fairly steep-to. 



Strong" island is a densely wooded island rising to a height of 375 

 feet, forming the point of separation between the approach to West 

 and Southwest arms and South arm, which is the eastern arm in New 

 bay. 



This island is conspicuous on southerly bearings, on which the 

 northern end appears as a bluff and cliffy face. 



Strong Island sound, southward of Strong island, is a consid- 

 erable water space, the entrances to which are on either side of the 

 southwestern part of the island; both channels are fairly clear, but 

 the western is the better. Just within the western entrance, and 

 bearing 243°, distant 350 yards from the southern extremity of 

 Strong island, is a rock 2 feet high, with shoal water extending 100 

 yards northward from it; while in the eastern passage a ridge, with 

 depths of 4 fathoms over it, extends half way across the channel from 

 the island. 



A wooded island, 160 feet high, lies in the middle of the sound at 

 650 yards south-southwestward of Strong island. Its western side is 

 clear, but at 100 yards off its eastern side there is a rocky patch which 

 dries 2 feet. Within this island the sound is divided by a peninsula 

 with an island 115 feet high close north-northeastward of it, both of 

 which are densely wooded. Eastward of the peninsula a very nar- 

 row channel, with a least depth of 4| fathoms in it, gives access to a 

 small basin forming the head of the sound. 



There is anchorage on either side of the peninsula in 16 to 19 

 fathoms, on the eastern side just after passing the island, 115 feet 

 high, and on the western side a little farther in. The channel into 

 the basin is only used by small schooners which frequent the locality 

 to load pulp and timber. 



There are no settlers in this locality. 



The outer part of the promontory on the southeastern side of the 

 sound, abreast the southwestern part of Strong island, is almost an 

 island, being nearly separated at high water by a shallow bight ex- 

 tending to within a few yards of Tea arm, a bay on its eastern side. 



South arm extends 4 miles southward from a point eastward of 

 Strong island. It then turns southwestward for f mile. Here it 

 expands considerably, and thence stretches southward for 3 miles 

 farther, gradually narrowing and terminating in a long basin, which 

 is nearly cut off at low water by projecting rocky points on either 

 side of its entrance. 



The western shore of the arm is bold for about 4 miles inside 

 Strong island and then falls to comparatively level land. Here there 

 are some settlers and a good deal of cultivated land. On the western 

 side of the southern portion of the arm there are also a few settlers, 



