548 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



soiithwestward it is named Bloody reach or the Cowpath, and it ends 

 in Bloody bay. 



Bloody reach or tlie Cowpatli, at its entrance between Lakeman 

 and Cottel islands, is TOO yards wide, but narrowed to 400 yards by 

 shoal water which stretches off Cottel beach. The reach is clear of 

 shoals for 1^ miles, where on the northwestern side are White islets, 

 off" which shoal water extends northeastward 400 yards. Beaches 

 head, open of the islets, bearing about 245°, leads clear of this shoal. 

 There is a 3-fathom patch off the tickle southwestward of Cottel 

 island. Wolf island open westward of Mouse island, bearing 225°, 

 leads southeastward of White islets and northwestward of the 

 3-fathom patch. 



Martin Shepherd islands are two islands on the southeastern 

 side of the Cowpath southwestward of Cottel island ; shoal water 

 extends 300 yards off the northeastern island into the Cowpath. Be- 

 tween the eastern island and Cottel island is a clear channel, but the 

 before-mentioned 3-fathom patch lies directly off it. 



Between Martin Shepherd islands is a channel having 3 fathoms 

 water on the northeastern and 8 fathoms on the southwestern side. 

 The northeastern part of the western island is connected with Indian- 

 look-out island, lying 000 3^ards to the eastward, by a bar of feet 

 water. 



Broad island is on the southeastern side of the (\)W])ath in con- 

 tinuation of the line o| Martin Shepherd islands; there is a clear 

 channel between it and the southwestern Martin Shepherd island. 



Mouse island, in the middle of the Cowpath. bearing 211°, dis- 

 tant 2f miles from the southern point of Lakeman island, is 63 feet 

 high. 



Bloody point, on the southeastern side of the Cowpath, southwest- 

 ward of Broad island, is a steep bluff 346 feet high. 



Beaches head, on the northwestern side of the Cowpath at f mile 

 soutliAvestward of Lakeman island, is 271 feet high; beaches con- 

 nect the three steep hills of which it is composed ; northward of the 

 highest hill is Beaches cove, small, and clear of shoals, which affords 

 anchorage, in 3 fathoms water, Avithin Woody islets on the southern 

 side of the entrance; there is a clear channel on either side of these 

 islets. 



Rocky bay, westward of Beaches head, extends westward 4 miles ; 

 at 2|- miles within Beaches head its entrance is ^ mile wide, with 

 ilocky islands on the southern side; this entrance is narrowed to 400 

 yards by Shag islet, a small dry rock with a reef 300 yards eastward 

 of it, on the north, and a reef 400 yards long, eastward and westward, 

 on the south. The northwestern side of the hillock forming the 

 southwestern point of Cottel island, in line with the southern point 



