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end of a wooded island near Campbellton mill, there are no shoals 

 beyond 400 yards from its shores. 



Indian head in line with the eastern end of Steering island leads 

 olear of the 3 fathoms patch. 



The eastern and southeastern shores of the arm are low and backed 

 by wooded ridges. 



Steering" island is a small round islet, 40 feet high, lying i mile 

 off the shore southward of Indian head; it is steep-to, covered with 

 grass, and conspicuous. 



Anchorage. — Avoiding the rocky patch, there is anchorage in 7 

 to 13 fathoms, sand and mud bottom. 



CampTbellton settlement, on the western shore of Indian arm, is 

 supported by the timber industry. It has a large steam sawmill, and 

 near it there is a wharf where vessels, up to 100 tons, can load. 



The river at the head of the arm runs out of an extensive series of 

 ponds commencing about ^ mile from the sea ; here there is a dam to 

 hold the water required for driving out the logs cut in the densely 

 wooded country around the ponds, and at the mouth of the river 

 there is an extensive timber boom. 



Indian head is foul for a distance of 400 yards. Between it and 

 Long point, at about If miles to the north-northwestward, is a bay 

 extending nearly a mile to the eastward, in which there is anchorage 

 during easterly winds. The head of this bay is only ^ mile from 

 Loon bay. 



Long point, a projection separated from the shore at high water, 

 is T) feet high, and prominent only from the large bowlders at its end. 



Chapel cove, between Long point and Chapel head, is about a 

 mile across at its entrance ; the cove is foul and off it there are several 

 rocks which dry. The shores of the cove are low and wooded. 



Chapel head is a conspicuous bluff headland: at 400 yards west- 

 ward of it there is a shoal patch Avith 4 fathoms water. The chan- 

 nel between the head and Camel island is ly^o miles wide. 



The shore of the bay of Exploits northward of Chapel head is 

 cliffy and irregular for 3 miles to Net Cove head, a wooded projec- 

 tion, which, with a similar but higher bluff immediately northward 

 of it, is conspicuous. 



Duck island, ^ mile off this shore, is small and grassy, and 200 

 yards south-southeastward of it is a rock which dries 3 feet, while 

 between the island and the land there are some rocks, which dry, sur- 

 rounded by shoals. The western side of the island must not be closed 

 to less than 200 yards. 



Two very conspicuous hills rise steeply from the comparatively 

 level and thickly wooded country eastward of Duck island. 



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