480 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



western part, where the land is low, and where, h'ing south-south- 

 westward of the northern Swan island, there is a shallow Ijoat harbor 

 having a few houses on its shores. 



Big bay islet, an islet southwest ward of Swan island, and some 

 rocks connected by shoal water, lie within 800 yards southwestward of 

 the southwestern point of Swan island. 



Twisty Ann's cove, eastward of the southwestern peninsula of 

 Swan island, has a few houses on its shores. 



Swan Island harbor is on the southern side of Swan island and 

 between it and Little Berry island, which is 60 feet high and wooded. 

 The eastern entrance is clear, but a reef extends west-northwestward 

 about 200 yards from Little Berry island and narrows the western 

 entrance to less than 100 yards. The harbor affords sheltered anchor- 

 age in a space about 400 yards in diameter and 15 to 17 fathoms deep. 



Rocks. — A patch of rocks, the highest head of which is 8 feet high, 

 lies 2C)5 yards off the southeastern side of Swan island. 



Framptons cove, on the eastern side of the island, has some houses 

 on its shoras; and on the shore of a small bight, southward of it, are 

 the remains of an Lidian burial ground. 



Shoals. — An 18-foot patch bears 351°, distant 300 yards from the 

 northern end of the northern Swan island. A small rock, 6 feet high, 

 with shoal water extending a short distance northward and south- 

 ward of it, bears 314°, distant ^ mile from the southwestern point of 

 Swan island. 



Hornet island, 600 j^ards eastward of Swan island, is a mile long 

 in an easterly and westerly direction, and -J- mile wide; its surface 

 is very uneven, and its highest point attains a height of about 200 

 feet. The northern and northwestern sides are generally cliffy. 



A rock, with 12 feet over it, bears 272°, about 400 feet from the 

 southwestern point of Hornet island. 



A grass}' islet. 20 feet high, lies west-northwestward. 400 yards from 

 the northern extremity of Hornet island; at rather over 200 yards in 

 a direction 209° from this islet and 200 yards off the northwestern 

 side of Hornet island, is a rock which dries 2 feet, with shoal water 

 extending southwestward nearly 200 yards from it ; and at 200 yards 

 in a direction 346° from the northern extremity of Hornet island is a 

 patch of rocks, the head of which dries 2 feet. A rock, 5 feet high, 

 lies northward, 700 yards from the northern extremity of Hornet 

 island; the channel between this rock and the patch of rocks north- 

 ward of the island is clear. Bearing 22°, distant 200 yards from the 

 rock, 5 feet high, is a rock with 18 feet over it. 



Long rock, bearing 11°, distant 1,300 yards from the northern 

 extremity of Hornet island, is 10 feet high, and 600 yards westward 

 from Long rock, is a shoal, with heads dry at low water, while from 

 this shoal a series of rock}' patches extends 1,400 yards to the north- 



