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at high water. A patch, with 6 to 8 fathoms water over it, bears 224°, 

 distant ^ mile from this shoal, with depths of 16 to 18 fathoms 

 between. 



Sculpin rock, bearing 266°, distant 600 yards from the southern 

 end of Fish island, dries 2 feet at low water ; and at a distance of 135 

 yards soiithwestward of this rock is Sculpin islet, small and 43 feet 

 high. 



Pig island lies southward 200 yards from Sculpin islet and is 350 

 yards long, about 100 yards wide, and 71 feet high ; a shoal, on which 

 is a rock 3 feet high, extends 100 yards soiithwestward of it. 



Hare island, 200 yards southeastward of Pig island and the 

 largest of the group, is nearly ^ mile across and 197 feet high ; there 

 are some rocks above water and surrounded by shoals within 200 

 yards off its southwestern side, and at 200 yards farther south-south- 

 westward is Gillott islet, a rock 38 feet high, with shoal water a short 

 distance northward and southward of it. 



Hare rock, bearing 140°, distant 300 yards from the northeastern 

 point of Hare island, is about 100 yards across and has a depth of 7 

 feet of water over it. 



Matthew Lane island, 1,300 yards south-southeastward of Hare 

 island is 1,200 yards long, northeastward and southwestward, with a 

 greatest breadth of ^ mile and a height of 130 feet. There is a small 

 boat harbor containing several rocks and sheltered by a rock 50 feet 

 high on its southern side. 



At 300 yards southeastward of the entrance of this boat harbor is 

 an islet 50 feet high, with a rock 20 feet high, 250 yards Avest-south- 

 westward of it; from this rock shoal water extends southward 100 

 yards, and both the islet and rock are surrounded for a short dis- 

 tance by a bank with 4^ to 9 fathoms water over it, while bearing 

 140°, distant 400 yards from the western end of the islet is a rocky 

 patch with 5 fathoms least water over it, and 10 to 20 fathoms around. 



There is a rock 7 feet high in the channel between Matthew Lane 

 island and the islet 50 feet high, from the eastern end of which it 

 bears 358°, distant 200 yards; this channel appears to be otherwise 

 clear. 



Duck islands are a group of wooded islets separated by a deep 

 channel, 400 yards wide, from the southeastern side of the western 

 of the Exploits Burnt islands. Upper Duck island, the westernmost 

 of the group, rises in a hillock. 160 feet. These islands inclose a 

 bay at their southwestern end, wherein temporary anchorage may be 

 obtained in 19 fathoms water, but the holding ground is not good. 



Swan islands are a group of jfive islands and some rocks lying 

 nearly a mile southeastward of Duck islands. Swan island, the 

 largest and main island of the group, has an area of about 2 square 

 miles; it is 340 feet high, and is densely wooded except at its north- 



