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entrance to Fortune harbor is open eastward of Bellens point, bear- 

 ing 184°, turn into the channel to Fortune harbor; when rounding 

 the western end of Sweeny island, shut in the house with a diamond 

 on the door at Davis j^oint, wdth the northeastern end of Button 

 island, bearing 118°, to clear a rock near the southwestern end of 

 Sweeny island. 



Steer in mid-channel between Sweeny and Button islands, and be- 

 tween Button and Jim Day islands; when past the latter, bring and 

 keep the summit of Macarthy island over the western end of Jim 

 Day island astern, bearing about 340°, and anchor in 10 to 15 fathoms 

 water, with the church bearing 93°, or farther up Southeast arm, 

 with the western points of that arm well open, to avoid Tiger rock. 



Ice. — Fortune harbor freezes during December and the ice breaks 

 up between May 1 and 15. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Fortune harbor, at 

 7 h. 14 m. ; springs rise 4 feet, neaps 3 feet. 



Webber big"!!! extends south-southeastward f mile from between 

 Snuffy point, the southeastern entrance point of Fortune harbor, and 

 Indian Cove point, which lies northeastward, distant ^ mile. The 

 bight is open to northerly and northwesterly winds, which send in a 

 very heavy sea, but is clear of shoals, except close to the shore; a 

 small settlement is situated around a cove on the eastern side of the 

 head. 



Anchorage, wdth offshore winds, may be obtained in the bight in 

 10 to 16 fathoms water, but the holding ground is not good. 



Gull island, northward 400 yards from the outer rock off Indian 

 Cove point, is a bare rugged rock, 54 feet high, and bold-to on its 

 southern side, but rocks and shoals extend northeastward and east- 

 ward 200 yards from it. Bed rock, wdth 9 feet water over it, bears 

 82°, distant ^ mile from the northern end of Gull island; the sea 

 breaks on the rock in heavy weather, and rolls to the shore over a 

 shoal of 4f fathoms, lying between Gull island and Indian cove. 



The shore of Notre Dame bay from Indian cove trends eastward 

 for 2^ miles to Northern head of bay of Exploits; it is broken into 

 several small coves. There are some banks with depths of 13 to 20 

 fathoms within 2 miles of this shore. 



Shoal ground, bearing 34°, distant 500 yards from Keogh island, 

 which is a small bare rock 17 feet high; there is a shoal with 3f 

 fathoms least water over it, on which the sea breaks in heavy weather. 

 The cairn on the smnmit of Exploits Burnt island, open northward of 

 Northern head, bearing about 126°, leads northeastward; and the 

 cairn on the bare summit of Western head, open northward of Upper 

 Caplin Cove point, bearing 253", leads northward of this bank. 



Bay of Exploits. — Western head of New World island bears 73°, 

 distant lOf miles from Northern head, and at 1| miles southward of 



