536 CAPE ST. JOHX TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



Pincher island, southwestward 4 miles from Gull island, is about 

 1,600 yards long, northeastward and southwestward, and 800 yards 

 wide ; a square church on the highest part of the island is conspicuous. 

 Pinchers bight, northwestward of the island, affords safe anchorage 

 in summer for small vessels in 2tV fathoms of water. 



Pouch island, southward about li[ miles from Pinclier island, is 

 80 feet high, and about ^ mile long, north-northeastward and soutli- 

 southwestward, with several islets and reefs around it; eastward f 

 mile from it are East reefs, the outer or eastern rock of which dries, 

 and is generally visible. 



Margery rock, bearing 6G°, distant 1 mile from East reefs, has 

 less than (1 feet water over it, and generally breaks. 



Directions for Pinchers bight. — P'rom the southeastward ap- 

 proach with Pincher Island church, well open northeastward of 

 Hincks islet, which is 12 feet high and lies f mile north-northeast- 

 Avard of Pouch island, bearing about 321°, and having passed the 

 outer rock of East reef, bring and keep it astern in line with the 

 northeastern end of Flowers island, a large island southward of 

 Pouch island, bearing 180°, until Bundells Gaze, a remarkable granite 

 lump on the mainland, is in line with Pound rocks, the outer rocks 

 northward of Pincher island, bearing 311°. Keep on this line until 

 Pincher Island church bears 239°, when sheer eastward to pass Pound 

 rocks, the channel between which and the shoals to the northeast- 

 ward is 800 yards wide ; anchor in the bight within Pound rocks. 

 ■ Ice. — The bays between Pincher island antl Pools arm, 7 miles 

 southwestward, all freeze between January 1 and February 1, and 

 clear as soon as the ice leaves the coast. 



Flowers islands, southward ly^o niiles from Pouch island, are two 

 islands, with some small islets close northwestward of them: the 

 southwestern island, 103 feet high, is the larger and higher ; together 

 they are about 1,200 yards in extent; a narrow channel, in which a 

 few resident fishermen secure their boats, runs northwestward and 

 southeastward between the islands. 



Swains islands lie oif the mainland at about 4 miles west-south- 

 westward of Pincher island ; there is a fishing village with a conspicu- 

 ous square church, painted white with a dark roof, on the southern 

 of these islands. Some sealing vessels lay up during summer in 

 Swains tickle, the channel nearest the mainland ; the entrance to this 

 tickle is from the southward, but no directions can be given for it. 



Catamaran reef, the easternmost of the shoals off Swains islands, 

 bears 76°, distant 700 yards from Swains Shag rock, an islet 40 feet 

 high. 



Butterfly islets are a group of rocks about 30 feet high, with foul 

 ground extending 300 yards northward of them, bearing 233°. distant 

 ly^^ miles from Flowers island summit. 



