546 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



Middle rocks bear 148°, distant about If miles from Offer Goose- 

 berry island; the southwestern rock is awash; the other, northeast- 

 ward 400 yards from it, has 9 feet water over it. 



The above are the outer rocks off Offer Gooseberry island, and they 

 can only be safely avoided by giving that island a berth of over 3 

 miles. 



Keck. — A rock, with 19 feet water over, has been reported to lie 

 with the northern end of Offer Gooseberry island, bearing 100°, dis- 

 tant 1^ miles. 



Inner, Gooseberry islands, southwestward 4 miles from Offer 

 Gooseberr}^ island, are fiat, and 120 feet high: the space between 

 Offer and Inner Gooseberry- islands is so encumbered with rocks and 

 shoals that it can not be safely navigated, except by the local fisher- 

 men. There is a fishing village on Inner Gooseberry islands, but no 

 good harbor for a stranger. 



Communication. — The steamer from port Blandford calls at 

 Gooseberry island weekly during summer and autumn. 



Malone rock, bearing 164°, distant 4| miles from Offer Gooseberry 

 island, is 2 feet high, and situated at the northern end of a ledge, a 

 mile long, north-northeastward and south-southwestward, on the 

 southern part of which are depths of 2 to 3 fathoms. 



Mole cove, in the western part of the northern coast of Cottel 

 island, affords fair anchorage; in approaching from the northeast- 

 ward keej) Hare Cut point, the northern point of the cove, well open 

 northward of a remarkable conical rock on the northwestern point of 

 the largest Inner Gooseberry island, bearing 225°, which leads north- 

 westward of the shoals between Inner and Offer Gooseberry islands, 

 except the 19 feet rock, bearing 280°, distant about 1:^ miles from 

 Offer Gooseberry island ; give Inner Gooseberry islands a fair berth, 

 and keep Offer Gooseberry island open northwestward of them, bear- 

 ing about 59°, until Hunch island is between the northeastern end of 

 Cottel island and the treble-peaked island close off it, bearing 127°, 

 when steer into the cove, passing a moderate distance from Hare 

 Cut point and the island off it, and anchor in 5 to 9 fathoms water, 

 rock bottom. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Mole cove at 7h. 37m. ; 

 springs rise 3^ feet, neaps 1| feet. 



Deer islands, which separate Pitt sound on the south from 

 Locker reach on the north, are fiat, about 100 feet high, and mostly 

 covered with stunted brushwood; the southeastern and southwest- 

 em coasts are bold and clear, but northeastward of them are numer- 

 ous rocks. 



Angel head is the northeastern point of Deer islands, and on the 

 coast I mile northwestward of it is tlie Popple stone, a conspicuous 

 white bowlder. 



