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of Beaches head, bearing about 65°, leads between Shag islet and the 

 reef. 



Black Duck island, ^ mile within Shag islet, has a small dry rock 

 oil its western point ; Black Duck cove lies northward of the island ; 

 there is a depth of 11 fathoms in it, mud bottom, but it is rocky and 

 should not be used without local knowledge. 



For Northwest arm, after passing Shag islet, keep the channel 

 between Martin Shepherd islands open southward of Black Duck, 

 island, bearing about 82°, until past the point westward of that 

 island, then bring the southern end of Black Duck island in line 

 with the point westw^ard of it, bearing 84°, which leads between the 

 reef off Ackworth island and a 2-fathom patch, and anchor in 9 to 

 12 fathoms of water northward of Ackworth island. 



Bard islands, on the southeastern side of the bay, are low and 

 rocky, and a reef stretches northward 400 yards from the eastern end 

 of the eastern island ; Beaches head in line with Shag islet, bearing 

 67°, leads northwestward of this reef; and when the eastern Bard 

 island bears 149°, steer along the northern side of Bard islands and 

 anchor southwestward of them in 9 to 13 fathoms water. 



Bloody bay. — Wolf island, 158 feet high, is the southwestern point 

 of the northwestern shore of the Cowpath, and from it Northwest 

 arm of Bloody bay extends westward 3 miles; the outer part of this 

 bay is clear of shoals, but shoal water extends off the shores to 200 

 yards beyond the outer points, and there is a depth of 3 to 5 fathoms 

 off the mouth of Norton cove, which is at the inner end of the south- 

 ern shore. The western continuation of the arm for a farther dis- 

 tance of 2 miles has 2^ fathoms water in the entrance; within, it 

 deepens to 8 fathoms in places. 



Linton rock, in the middle of Northwest arm, westward Ij- miles 

 from Wolf island, is 3 feet high. 



Middle arm. — The entrance to this arm extends southward for 1 

 mile with a width of 400 yards; the arm then opens out to a ba}'^ 3 

 miles long and 1| miles wide; the depth graduallj'^ decreases from 

 20 fathoms at the inner part of the entrance to the head. 



A rock, just covered at high water, lies 600 yards from the north- 

 ern shore and If miles within the bay. 



Northeast arm is a continuation of the Cowpath eastward of 

 Middle arm; it is shoal for 300 yards from either shore; there is 

 anchorage in less than 10 fathoms water, at f mile within the en- 

 trance, and the depth decreases rather quickly to the shoal entrance 

 of an extensive arm, which is only navigable for boats at high water. 



Saint rock, the outer shoal off the entrance to W^illis reach, lies 

 with the summit of Great Black island, which is 234 feet high, 

 bearing 256°, distant 2j;% miles, and has 12 feet water over it. 



