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numbers, the prevailing winds being more favorable for the return 

 voyage. 



Ice. — Seldom-come-by harbor freezes between Januarj^ 1 and 10, 

 and sometimes remains frozen till as late as June, but at other times 

 the ice clears as early as the middle of February. Field ice usually 

 arrives in the early part of February and sometimes remains till June. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Seldom-come-bv har- 

 bor at 7h. i3m. ; spring rise 4^ feet, neaps 3 feet. 



Cann island lies 600 yards southward of a point of Fogo island 

 at 1| miles westward of Burnt point, and is about 1,200 yards long, 

 east and west, and 800 yards wide. A rock above water lies 300 yards 

 eastward of the island, with which it is connected by shoal water, and 

 a shoal flat with Mouse island and several rocks on it extends west- 

 ward ^ mile from the island. There is a rock, with 2^ fathoms of 

 water over it, in the channel northward of Cann island where the 

 general depth is 4 fathoms. 



Lig-ht. — A light tower rising from the gable of a house', together 

 39 feet high and painted white with red roofs, on Cann island, ex- 

 hibits at 85 feet above high water a fixed white light that is visible 

 through an arc of 270° and should be seen from a distance of 10 

 miles in clear weather. 



Little Seldom-conie-by harbor, a bay lying narthwestwarcl of 

 Cann island, affords good summer anchorage in 6 to 10 fathoms 

 water, mud bottom; the approach is clear, except the flat and islets 

 w^estward of Cann island. 



Stag" Harbor tickle is the channel between Fogo island on the 

 north, and the Indian islands and their adjacent islets on the south; 

 it is narrow and intricate, but is preferred by coasting vessels to the 

 passage through Sir Charles Hamilton sound. 



Ice. — Stag Harbor tickle freezes solid in January, and the ice 

 breaks up between May 1 and 10. 



Stag harbor, an inlet on the south coast of Fogo island, whose 

 entrance bears 258°, distant 3 miles from Cann island, being open 

 to the eastward, is not available for anchorage. 



The coast of Fogo island from the southern entrance point of Stag 

 harbor trends southwestwarcl for nearly a mile to South point; it 

 then turns northwestward for 1| miles to Rogers point. 



Stag rock, bearing 156°, distant 200 yards from South point, has 

 less than 6 feet w^ater over it. 



Buoys. — Three nun bouj^s are moored in about 3|^ fathoms of water 

 in the narroAv part of Stag Harbor run, one on the southern side, 

 painted red, and two on the northern side, painted black. The east- 

 ern black buoy is surmounted by a white flag. The channel betAveen 

 the red buoy and the black buoys carries the greatest available depth 

 of water. Mariners are cautioned against the possibility that these 



