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Ice. — Fixir islands auclioruoe freezes about January 11 and clears 

 about April 13. 



Communication. — The steamer from port Blandford calls at Fair 

 islands anchorage weekly during summer and autumn. 



Lewis island is about 1 mile west-southwestward of Pork island, 

 and near the middle of its southern side there is a remarkably steep 

 hill, 456 feet high, having several conspicuous bowlders on its summit. 

 Frying-pan island, immediately under this hill, is dome-shaped, 141) 

 feet high, with a clear channel 200 yards wide betw^een it and Lewis 

 island. 



Trinity bay extends westward 7 miles from its entrance between 

 Pork and Lewis islands. 



Southwest island, in the eastern entrance to Trinity bay at 600 

 yards southward of Pork island, is 52 feet high, and steep-to on its 

 southeastern side, but rocks and shoal water extend 400 yards olf its 

 northeastern and western ends. 



Saint island, midway between Pork and Lewis islands, and bearing 

 262^, distant 1,600 yards from Southwest island, is 119 feet high; 

 close off its eastern point is a rock, and its western end is foul to the 

 distance of 300 yards. A rock, with less than 6 feet water over it, 

 bears 331°, distant ^ mile from the eastern end of Saint island; the 

 southern point of the eastern Fair island open southward of the east- 

 ern of the southern points of Pork island, bearing 79°, leads south- 

 ward of it. 



Ice. — Northern ice arrives about March 5 and remains until about 

 April 25, and Trinity bay is usually covered with locally formed ice 

 during February and March ; the Northwest arm is generally frozen 

 about the end of January or the beginning of February, and is clear 

 about the middle of March ; the Southwest arm freezes regularly from 

 the middle of January to the middle of May. 



Drake cove, southwestward of Drake island, which lies about 800 

 yards w^estward of Lewis island, affords fair anchorage in 7 to 10 

 fathoms of water; the northwestern shore is rugged, and rocks ex- 

 tend from the northern entrance point nearly to mid-channel between 

 it and Drake island. 



Trinity gut, the southern entrance to Trinity bay, is i mile long 

 and 400 yards wide ; some rocks lie off its western shore, but there is a 

 clear passage 7 to 12 fathoms deep in mid-channel. 



The shore southwestward from Trinity gut, forming the northern 

 side of Locker reach, is steep and straight for 2^ miles to Chalky 

 cove, which affords a convenient temporary anchorage for small 

 vessels windbound, in 4 to 10 fathoms water, rocky bottom: a rock, 

 with 1 foot water over it, lies 450 yards eastward of its western point. 



Locker bay extends westward about 4^ miles from Chalky cove; 

 the outer part has an average breadth of ^ mile, with depths of 20 to 



