506 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BON AVISTA. 



bearing, 307°, leads close southwestward of the spit. Small vessels 

 enter Fools harbor and anchor in the middle in 8 fathoms water. 



Mouse rock, north-northeastward TOO yards from North Trump 

 island, is dark, peaked, and IT feet high; two rocks awash at low 

 water lie between the rock and the island. Christopher island, open 

 northward of Mouse rock, bearing 62°, leads northwestward of these 

 rocks. 



Mouse island, northward 800 j^qrds from Mouse rock, is small 

 ilat-topped, S.") feet high, and covered with scrub; it is steep-to. A 

 rock, with T feet of water over it, lies in the channel between Mouse 

 island and Mouse rock, bearing 160°, distant 300 yards from the 

 island. 



Matthews island, northward about 1,200 yards from Mouse 

 island, with a clear channel between, consists of three rocky hillocks 

 connected by low necks' of land; the highest, at the southeastern end, 

 is T8 feet high. Low rocks extend about 200 yards southward from 

 the island, but the water deepens rapidly around it. 



Twillingate (Toulinguet) islands, a group consisting of Xorth 

 Twillingate island and South Twillingate island, together with 

 several smaller islands off them, are separated from New World 

 island by Main tickle. 



North Twillingate island is about 3 miles long, nortb-northwest- 

 Avard and south-southeastward, narrow at its southern end, but rather 

 more than a mile wide at its northern end, and attains a height of 

 309 feet. Rocks and shoals extend to about 400 yards off its coasts 

 in places. It is separated from South Twillingate island by Shoal 

 tickle. 



Back harbor, on the southwestern side of North island, is entered 

 through a jiassnge 300 yards wide, between Batrix island to the 

 southeastAvard and Back Harbor head to the nortliAvestward. The 

 harbor is a basin about TOO yards in diameter, l)ut the anchorage space 

 is limited by shoals around it. 



Back Harbor Gull island is a rock 96 feet high lying | mile south- 

 westward of Back Plarbor head. 



To enter the harbor pass southward of Back Harbor Gull island 

 and then keep in mid-channel. The anchorage has from 4^ to 7 

 fathoms Avater and is sheltered except from AACsterly winds. Gales 

 from the AA^estAvard send in a heaA^y sea. 



A large settlement surrounds the harbor. 



Lower head lies a mile nortliAAestward of Back Harbor head, and 

 thence the northAvestern coast of the island trends about northeast- 

 ward 1 J miles to Long point. 



Sleepy Cove Gull island. 149 feet high, lies 400 yards off this 

 coast; a shoal extends northward 150 vards from it. and 100 yards 



