520 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



There is a snug anchorage for small vessels in 2 fathoms of water, 

 in a basin between the southernmost Leveret island and the coast of 

 Fogo island. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Hare bay at 7h. 35m. ; 

 springs rise 4-| feet, neaps 3 feet. 



Brimstone head is 272 feet high. Seal cove on its southern side 

 is entered by a narrow passage between shoals. Brimstone rock 

 bears 283°, distant 700 yards from the head and is awash at low 

 water, and bearing 317°, distant 600 yards from this rock is Stone 

 island from which shoal water extends eastward. 



Black islet, bearing 249°, distant If miles from Brimstone head, is 

 small and 12 feet high; a sunken rock bears 36°, distant 250 yards, 

 Old Eoger reef bears 24°, distant 1,200 yards, and a patch with 4 

 fathoms water over it bears 187°, distant ^ mile, from the islet, while 

 between it and Shoal Bay rock there are two rocks awash at low 

 water. Shoal Bay rock, bearing 255°, distant f mile from Black islet, 

 has 3 fathoms of water over it. 



Clearing- marks. — Indian Lookout island, just open of Hare Jisij 

 head, bearing 179°, leads eastward of Old Roger reef; Watch island 

 open, and Hare island just shut in, with the eastern end of Change 

 island bearing 171°, leads westward of Shoal Bay rock. 



Shoals. — Fogo rock, with less than 6 feet water over it, bears 332°, 

 distant nearly 1,600 yards; Monkey rock, with less than 6 feet water 

 over it, 345°, 1,400 yards; Prince's Horney rock, with 3 fathoms least 

 water, 294°, 1,300 yards; and Old Horny rock, with 4 fathoms water, 

 315°, 1y% miles, from the northwestern point of Fogo Head peninsula. 



Leading mark. — The northern point of Simms island shut in by 

 Barnes island, bearing 78°, leads southward of Prince's Horney and 

 Old Horney rocks. 



Fogo harbor lies eastward of Fogo Head peninsida, the bold and 

 rocky peninsula at the northwestern end of Fogo island, and a line 

 of islands, including Boatswain, Barnes, Simms or Lighthouse, and 

 Rags islands, extend from Fogo head eastward across the mouth of 

 the harbor to the coast northward of Lanes lookout. 



These islands are 50 to 100 feet high, forming narrow entrances 

 difficult of access at all times to a sailing vessel, and unapproachable 

 with the heavy sea which rolls in during and after gales from sea- 

 ward. 



There are two principal channels into the harbor, with a least 

 depth of 9 feet in the fairway of the eastern, and of 19 feet in that of 

 the western, at low water; the harbor affords secure anchorage in 3 

 to 7 fathoms water, mud bottom. 



The eastern entrance is between Rags and Simms islands; Rags 

 rock lies northward 200 yards from Rags island, and Simms rock is 



