542 CAPE ST. JOHisr to cape bonavista. 



entrance is 100 yards wide; the harbor, which extends northward 

 1,200 yards, increases in width to 200 yards; there are a few small 

 rocks close off its western shore, but with the exception of these it is 

 clear, with good anchorage in 4 to 5 fathoms of water, mud bottom. 



Indian bay, formed by the continuation of the shore from New 

 harbor on the north and by Silver Fox island. 271 feet high. Brown 

 Fox island, and the shore in continuation of them, on the south, 

 trends westward for 8 miles, and then branches northwestward in 

 Northwest arm for 1-^ miles and west-southwestward in Southwest 

 arm for 1 mile. 



Cat island, on the north shore of Indian bay, rises in a conical 

 hill, 214 feet high, at its eastern end; immediately eastward of the 

 island is a small islet 6 feet high, with a rock close eastward of it and 

 rocks between it and Cat island. 



Cat cove, northeastward of Cat island, is a favorite place of shelter 

 for wind-bound sealing vessels; the anchorage is in 7 to 13 fathoms 

 water, and its approach is clear, except the islet and rock eastward of 

 Cat island ; these are left on the port hand when entering, as there is 

 no safe channel between them and Cat island. 



Cutmans island, ^ mile long, eastward and westward about \ 

 mile wide and 77 feet high, is separated by a rocky channel ^ mile 

 wide from the western end of Brown Fox island and by a channel 

 600 yards wide from the mainland southwestward of it. The main 

 channel of Indian bay, northward of Cutmans island and between it 

 and Camel island, is ^ mile wide. 



Ship island, 1 mile westward of Camel island, is the largest of 

 a group which extends I mile across Indian bay from its northern 

 shore. 



Xortli arm, northeastward of Ship island, affords good anchorage 

 in 4 to 13 fathoms water, mud bottom. 



The channel between the Ship island group and the southern shore 

 of Indian bay is 600 yards wide, with a depth of 44 fathoms in mid- 

 channel, 6 fathoms near the shore, and 7 fathoms near the southern 

 island of the group. 



Fair islands, southward of Brown Fox island, comprise a barren 

 group of many dome-shaped isolated granite islands, var3'ing in 

 height from the low eastern islets to 300 feet. There is moderately 

 good anchorage for small vessels on the northwestern side of the 

 eastern island ; the southern entrance is the best ; it is 100 yards wide, 

 with a rock awash at low water spring tides off the eastern point, 

 therefore keep on the western shore when going in ; the anchorage is 

 in 6 fathoms water, off the houses on the island. 



Pork island, the western of the Fair islands, is on the northern side 

 of the entrance to Trinitv bav. 



