BLACK REEF- — STINKING ISLANDS. 537 



Black reef, bearing 3r)2°, distiint 800 yards from Butterily islets, 

 is a small rock about 10 feet high. 



East Twin, a rock with 13 feet of water over it, bears 274 , distant 

 1,200 yards from Butterfly islets, and AVest Twin, a rock with 12 feet 

 water over it, is situated 1 mile in the same direction from the islets. 



Half rock, bearing 243°, distant l^^o miles from Butterfly islets, 

 has 9 feet of water over it. 



Three rocks and Jacobs ground, south-southeastward 1^ miles 

 from Flowers island, cover an area 1 mile long in an easterly and 

 westerly direction, and 1,400 yards wide, in which there are several 

 shoal heads, with depths of 7 feet to ;") fathoms over them, and deep 

 water among them. 



Shoe point, in line with the northern side of Copper island, bearing 

 243°, leads southeastward; Shoe point, in line with the southern side 

 of Xewell island, an island lying northwestward of Copper island, 

 bearing 248°, leads northwestward; Pouch Island summit, in line 

 with the northeastern side of Flowers islands, bearing 326°, leads 

 northeastward; and the main portion of Pouch island, open westward 

 of Flowers islands, bearing 354°, leads westward of these shoals. 



Stinking or Cabot islands, known as Stinking islands V)y the 

 fishermen, are the outer of the low rocky islets lying off the shore 

 between cape Freels and Shoe point ; these two islands are about 400 

 yards apart northwestward and southeastward, 19 and 22 feet high, 

 respectively, and bear 153°, distant 5i miles from Gull island. 



Light. — A lighthouse, rising from the middle of a square build- 

 ing with flat roofs, 47 feet high, and painted red and white in hori- 

 zontal bands, on the northwestern Cabot island, exhibits at 74 feet 

 above high water, an intermittent white light, showing thus : Light, 

 eleven seconds; eclipse, nine seconds, which should be seen from a 

 distance of 10 miles in clear weather. 



Signals. — The lighthouse is supplied with the International code 

 signals. 



Hocks. — Bleak islets, which are rocks 8 feet high, and Stevensons 

 islets, which are rocks 14 feet high, lie between Cabot and Flowers 

 islands; and halfway between Bleak islets and Cabot islands is a 

 rock with 6 feet of water over it. 



Stinking banks lie from 1^ to 3 miles northeastward of Cabot 

 islands, with depths of 12 to 16 fathoms between; the banks extend 

 H miles east -northeast and west-southwest, with a width of ^} mile, 

 in patches having 7 to 9 fathoms of water over them; from the outer 

 patch of 7 fathoms Cabot Island lighthouse bears 245°. distant 3 miles. 



Middle rock, bearing 354°, distant 2 miles from Cabot Island light- 

 house, is awash at low water, and the sea generally breaks over it. 



A rock, with 4 fathoms over it, bears 28°, distant 600 yards from 

 Middle rock. 



