ROWSELL COVE — ^WOODY ISLAND. 473 



Communication. — The post-office for the district is at Moores 

 cove, and the mail steamer from Burnt island calls weekly. 



Rowsell cove, 950 yards northwestward of Yellow Fox island 

 extends eastward 335 yards, and affords good anchorage for small 

 vessels in 12 fathoms or less water, sheltered except from southerly 

 and southwesterly winds. A conspicuous wooded conical hill rises 

 at the head of the cove. 



Josiah Spencer cove, immediately northwestward of Rowsell 

 cove and separated from it by a small headland terminating in a 

 hillock, 80 feet high, extends northeastward 300 yards and affords 

 anchorage, during offshore winds, for fishing craft in 4 to 7 fathoms 

 water. 



The shore of New bay from Josiah Spencer cove trends north- 

 northwestward for 1-^0 miles to New Bay head, and there is deep 

 water at 100 yards off it. 



Silver Buckle island is 550 yards offshore at y^ mile northwest- 

 M'ard of Josiah Spencer cove ; it is 600 yards long in an easterly and 

 westerly direction, 200 yards wide, and 155 feet high. The Silver 

 Buckle, whence its name, is a mass of quartz near the northwestern 

 end of the island. 



Brandies rocks is the name given to a patch of rocky and foul 

 ground extending 400 yards in a west-northwesterly and east-south- 

 easterly direction and having in the middle an island, 14 feet high, 

 which bears 280°, distant 1,300 yards from the northwestern end of 

 Silver Buckle island. 



New Bay head, the eastern entrance point of New bay, rises in 

 steep cliffs to a height of 270 feet. New Bay rocks, 64 feet high, are 

 situated close northward of the head, a channel 40 yards wide, with 

 3-| fathoms water in it, lying between. Foul ground extends a short 

 distance from the head. 



Fleury. big'ht, the entrance of which is 1 mile eastward from 

 New Bay head, extends southeastward about y% mile, with a general 

 width of 450 j'ards. There is a village at the head of the bight, where 

 a hill rises almost vertically to the height of 435 feet. Abbott cove, 

 an indentation on the eastern shore of the bight at 700 yards within 

 its eastern head, is encumbered with rocks. 



Fleury bight affords anchorage in 14 to 16 fathoms water, but a 

 heavy sea rolls in with northwesterly and northerly winds, and it is 

 then untenable, as the holding ground is not good. 



Water can generally be obtained from a stream flowing into the 

 western side of the head of the bight. 



Woody island, separated by a narrow channel from the eastern 

 entrance head of Woody Island bight, an open bay northeastward of 

 Fleury bight, rises steeply to a flat wooded summit, 188 feet high ; a 

 rock with 10 feet water over it lies close westward of this island. 



