THE BRANDIES ROCKS COTTEL REACH. 547 



The Br£^ndies rocks, bearing 56°. distant 2] miles from Burnt 

 island, the nearest of the Deer islands, break in a moderate sea. 



The southern point of Locker bay. open northward of Deer end, 

 the western point of Deer islands, bearing 245°, leads northward; 

 and the summit of Brown Fox island, well open eastward of the 

 eastern Fair island, bearing about 312°, leads northeastward of them. 



Burnt Island rock, bearing 65°, distant ^ mile from Burnt island, 

 generally breaks. 



Brag rock, bearing 42°, distant ij mile from the Popple stone, 

 generally breaks. A patch with 12 feet water over it lies ^ mile 

 northeastward from Brag rock. 



Shag" islands, southwestward. distant 1 mile from Angel head and 

 ^ mile from the Deer islands, are small, and steep-to on the southern 

 side ; Deer Shag, the southwestern, is 35 feet high. 



Pitt Sound island, southward. 2 miles from Deer island, is 4 miles 

 long and about 1 mile wide; its wooded hills rise steeply from the 

 coast to the height of 474 feet. 



Man-of-war rock, 300 yards otf the northern coast of Pitt Sound 

 island and 1^ miles from its northeastern point, is 5 feet high. Half 

 a mile westward of it, on the island, are Pitt Sound gates, so named 

 from the weathering out of Avhite quartz on the black rock having 

 the appearance of enormous gates. 



Locker Flat island, 2^ miles southward of Chalky head, is 3 miles 

 long, about ^ mile wide, and 40 feet high: its: coasts are of shelving- 

 rock, and should not be approached nearer than ^ mile. 



Isis cove, Great Content, and Little Content are bights at the 

 head of Pitt sound and in the mainland southward of Locker Flat 

 island, which are open northward and afford no shelter. 



Content islet, off Great Content, is 22 feet high, and steep-to on 

 the east, but connected by a reef with the eastern point of Isis cove. 



Lakeman islands are southwestward of Pitt Sound island and 

 separated from it by Lakeman reach, which joins Bloody reach, on 

 the southeast to Pitt sound on the northwest. 



A rock, bearing 204°, distant 1,400 yards from the western point 

 of Pitt Sound island and nearly midway between that island and 

 Lakeman islands, has 6 feet water over it. 



Dog" cove, in the mainland southwestward of Lakeman islands, 

 affords good anchorage for a small vessel. In entering it, approach 

 the northern shore closely to clear a reef which stretches more than 

 half way across from the islands on the southern side. The cove 

 should be approached from the northwestward unless with local 

 knowledge. 



Cottel reach commences between Gooseberry and Deer islands, 

 and it continues southwestward between Pitt Sound and Lakeman 

 islands on the northwest and Cottel island on the southeast. Farther 



