482 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BOFAVISTA. 



Spruce islands are two islands lying ^ mile south-southeastward 

 of Long island. The eastern island is 1,700 yards long, northward and 

 southAvard, 900 yards wide, and 160 feet high; the western island, 

 situated 200 yards southwestward of the western part of the eastern 

 island, with a depth of 2 fathoms in the channel between, is 600 

 yards long, 400 yards wide, and 110 feet high. Foul ground extends 

 westward 250 yards from the northern part of the eastern island. 

 A rocky patch with 6 fathoms least water over it bears 268°, distant 

 600 yards from the northern point of the western island, and bearing 

 243°, distant 600 yards from the southeastern point of the western 

 island, there is a rocky head with 25 feet over it. 



Ochre Pit island, Ij'ing about -J mile westward from the southern 

 end of Long island, is 800 yards long, eastward and westward, 500 

 yards wide, and 210 feet high. At 600 yards southeastward of Ochre 

 Pit island is an islet, 100 feet high; and a shoal, with 1^ fathoms 

 water over it, bears 110°, distant 300 yards from its northern ex- 

 tremity. 



There is a deposit of yellow ochre on Ochre Pit island, which was 

 dug by the Indians formerly inhabiting this part of Newfoundland. 



Tinker island, southwestward 600 yards from the rocks off the 

 southwestern extremity of Swan island, is 500 yards long, northeast- 

 ward and southwestward, nearly 200 yards wide, and 135 feet high. 

 There is an islet close to its southeastern side, eastward of which at 

 the distance of 100 yards is a rock with 5 feet of water over it. 



Pond island, lying ^ mile southeastward from the islet on the 

 southeastern side of Tinker island, is 900 yards long, in a northwest- 

 erly and southeasterly direction, 400 yards wide, and 195 feet high; 

 it is fairly steep -to. 



Hummock island, southwestward ^ mile from Tinker island, is 

 nearly a mile long, in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, 

 about 600 yards wide, and 310 feet high. There is a remarkable 

 sugar-loaf hill near its southern end, and on its southeastern side is a 

 detached island, 70 feet high. Northwestward 300 yards from the 

 southern extremity of the island is a rock, 30 feet high, with a rock, 

 69 feet high, close southward of it; these are connected with the 

 southern part of the island by a shoal water and foul ground. From 

 200 yards southeastward of the rock, 69 feet high, three rocky islets, 

 20, 40, and 60 feet high, respectively, and close together, extend 

 southeastward I mile, and bearing 140°, distant 135 yards from the 

 southern extremity of the southeastern one of these islets, there is a 

 small rock with 19 feet water over it. 



Upper Black island, south-southwestward 1y% miles from the 

 islets southward of Hummock island, is 2^jf miles long, in a northerly 

 and southerly direction, about 1,600 yards wide, and 500 feet high. 



