BEREY ISLAND HERRING HEAD. 513 



Joe rock, bearing 58°, distant 900 yards from the northeastern end 

 of Bacalhao island, has 3 fathoms water over it. 



Berry island, 1,400 yards south westward of Bacalhao island, is 

 about 1,600 yards long, northeastward and southwestward, narrow, 

 186 feet high, rocky, and barren; a rock, with 15 feet water over it. 

 lies 200 yards northward of its northeastern end. 



Starve head, a steep cliff, 239 feet high, bears southwestward from 

 Berry island, and is separated from it by a channel 1.200 yards wide, 

 in the middle of which is Clarke rock, small, covered at high water, 

 and generally showing by a breaker; the passage between the rock 

 and Berry island is clear, but that between it and Starve head is foul. 



Starve harbor lies immediately southeastward of Starve head; 

 its entrance is about 30 yards wide and 200 yards long, with 4 

 fathoms Avater; it opens out to a deep basin 400 yards wide and ^' 

 mile long; there is a reef on the northwestern shore just within the 

 entrance, so that the island forming the southeastern head must be 

 passed closely. 



Goldson arm. — Herring neck, lying between tlie land of Starve 

 and the promontory of Herring head, is the inhabited portion of 

 the entrance to Goldson arm, a narrow inlet extending southwestward 

 for 3 J miles. 



Wlicn proceeding up the arm. keep on the northwestern shore, 

 which is steep-to for 1^ miles. A small vessel can anchor in Ship 

 cove, just within the northern head: and on the same shore at | mile 

 farther up, is Starve cove, which has rocks a few yards off its 

 entrance points, but affords anchorage for a small vessel. Both these 

 coves are so small that a vessel seeking anchorage might not find 

 room in them ; in this case, as the depth in the main part of the arm 

 off them is 30 fathoms, it would be necessary to run up about If 

 miles within the entrance; in doing so, Avhen the entrance to Burnt 

 arm ojiens, keep on the northern shore, with the cliff northward of 

 Plerring neck open of the southeastern shore, to avoid a patch, with 

 3 fathoms water over it, that lies nearly in mid-channel, and when 

 above the entrance to Burnt arm, anchor in 10 to 13 fathoms water, 

 mud bottom. 



Communication. — The steamer from Lewisport calls at Herring 

 T^eck weekly during summer and autumn. 



Goose islands, a small group lying midway between Berry island 

 and Herring Head promontory, are steep all around. 



Herring head, situated southeastward, distant 1^ miles from the 

 southwestern end of Bacalhao island, is steep and 264 feet high ; it is 

 the termination of a narrow promontory of New World island ex- 

 tending northeastward for 2| miles. 



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