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Round head, eastward If miles from Joe Batts point and the 

 northeastern point of Fogo island, is 199 feet high and conspicuous. 



Rocks and islands northward and northeastward of Fogo 

 island. — X belt of islands and rocks, with an average width of 2 

 miles, extends northeastward about 14 miles from Stone islet, which 

 is situated 2| miles northward of Fogo head on a bearing 348°. 



The channel between this belt and Fogo island is naA-igable, but 

 there are numerous shoals in it, which are shown on the chart, and 

 it is advisable to obtain the assistance of a local pilot to proceed 

 through it. There are also deep water channels amongst the islands 

 and rocks, for the navigation of most of which local knowledge is 

 required. 



Stone islet is small and 12 feet high. Penny rock, bearing 223°, 

 distant about 800 yards from Stone islet, has less than 6 feet of water 

 over it. 



Gappy island, bearing 50°, distant 1| miles from Stone islet, is 

 small, 83 feet high, and conspicuous. Harvey rock, with less than 6 

 feet of water over it, bears 165°, distant f mile from the western end 

 of Gappy island. 



West Countryman, East Countrj^man, and Long islands are 

 groups of islets, 10 to 30 feet high, which, with some patches of rocks 

 that break, lie between Seals Nest islands and Gappy island. 



Seals Nest islands, about 3 miles east-northeastward of Gappy 

 island, are a group of islets, 10 to 30 feet high, which, with some 

 rocks, extend northward and southward, nearly 1^ miles. 



Storehouse islands are about 1,200 yards north-northeastward of 

 Seals ISTest islands ; the largest of the group is 140 feet high, and the 

 islets eastward of it are steep-to. 



Turr islands are a group east-northeastward 1 mile from Store- 

 house islands, with a clear channel ^ mile wide between. These two 

 groups of islands are the highest and most conspicuous of the belt. 

 In passing through the channel between them. Round head of 

 Fogo island open westward of Mile islet, bearing 154°, leads west- 

 ward of Lots rock, which lies west-northwestward, nearly ^ mile 

 from the highest Turr island and is awash at low w^ater. Mile islet, 

 situated southward, 1^ miles from the highest Turr island, is 12 

 feet high; shoals extend westward 600 yards and thence northward 

 GOO yards from it ; this islet requires a berth of ^ mile. 



Little Fogo islands, southeastward of Turr islands, arc a group 

 the eastern and highest island of which is 136 feet high. 



Bishops islet, 2 mile northeastward of Little Fogo islands awd the 

 easternmost islet of the belt, is small and 10 feet high ; shoal ground 

 extends northwestward 1 mile and eastward ^ mile from it. 



Ireland rocks, the eastern of which bears 47°. distant 2,^,7 miles 

 from Bishops islet, are three separate sunken heads, on which the 



