530 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



of this foul gTouncl, bears 255°. distant 000 yards from the northwest- 

 ern point of the island. The western side of Gander island, open 

 westward of Duck islet, bearing 27°, leads westward of Robinson 

 rock. 



Shoal bay, on the western side of Gander bay at about 1^ miles 

 within Dog point, has numerous islets and rocks in it. Farewell 

 head, open eastward of Dog point, bearing 353°, leads eastward of 

 them. 



Fox island is ^ mile olf the western side of the bay, to which it is 

 connected by shoal water, at if miles within Dog point, and Bussey 

 point is a low promontory on the same shore at o^ miles farther in; 

 shoals, having 12 to 15 feet of water over them, lie directly between 

 Fox island and Bussey point ; the point next above Bussey point, 

 open eastw^ard of it, bearing 196°, leads eastward of these shoals. 



In the reach from Bussey point to Clark point, at 3^ miles to the 

 southward, keep Storehouse island open westward of Beaver point, 

 bearing about 21°, until past the point next above Bussey point, to 

 clear a long shoal, which stretches | mile off a low point of the east- 

 ern shore of the bay. A shoal, with 3^ fathoms of water over it, lies 

 in mid-channel, bearing 108°, distant 1 mile from Bussey point. 



Anchorage. — There is safe anchorage, bottom generally mud, in 

 the bay above Fox island. 



Ice. — Gander bay freezes about January 1 and the ice clears about 

 May 1. 



Tides and tidal streams. — It is high water, full and change, in 

 Gander bay at 7h. 55m.; springs rise 4 feet, neaps 3 feet. 



At Clark point at springs the rate of the ebb stream reaches 2 

 knots, and there is a very weak flood for about three hours ; at neaps 

 there is no flood stream. 



Gander river, a considerable fresh-water stream, flowing out of 

 the lake of the same name, which is 33 miles from the head of the 

 bay, is crossed, at 5 miles below the point where it issues from the 

 lake, by the Northern and Western Eailway. 



Dog" bay extends southwestward 7 miles from its entrance between 

 Dog point and Farewell head, at about 3 miles to the northw^ard. 

 Dog islands, a group of islets and rocks, extend north-northwestward 

 about Ifo miles from Dog point. 



Steering island, in the middle of the fairway into Dog bay, is 

 small, 27 feet high, and steep-to. Charley island bears 249°, distant 

 j% mile from Steering island, and a reef extends southwestward ^ 

 mile from it. 



Vesuvius rock, bearing 70°, distant J mile from Steering island, 

 is awash at low water. Half of Goose island open southward of the 

 southern Dog Bay island, bearing about 106°, leads southward, and 

 Charley island, well open northwestward of Steering island, bearing 

 244°, leads close northward of the rock. 



