550 CAPE ST. JOHN TO CAPE BONAVISTA. 



Saturday ledge, lying westward, distant f mile from Saint rock, 

 has 4 fathoms of water over its shoalest part. 



Flat islands, between Great Black island and Willis island, extend 

 over an area 24 miles long, northwestward and southeastward, and ^ 

 mile wide ; they are 80 to 140 feet high, and have a generally flat ap- 

 pearance. A few fishermen live on them, and their huts are on the 

 middle islands of the group. 



Bessy island, 284 feet high, appearing as a large rounded woody 

 hill, is the largest of a group of islands lying eastward of the south- 

 eastern part of Willis island. There are no convenient anchorages 

 among the Flat islands or in this group, and the channels among 

 them should not be attempted without a pilot. 



Shoals extend southeastward 2 miles from (jreat Black island and 

 southeastward 1 mile from Flat islands; Ship rock, bearing 45°, 

 distant f mile from the northeastern end of Ship island, has 4 feet 

 of water over it. Bakers Loaf island, open southward of Ship island, 

 bearing 231°, leads southeastward of the shoals and rock. 



Morris island, southward 1 mile from the western part of Willis 

 island, is 279 feet high, and the western and largest of a group 

 which extends eastward 3 miles from it and terminates seaward in 

 Ship island, a conspicuous conical hill 257 feet high. 



Cow head, southward 2f miles from Ship island, is a steep bold 

 cliff 479 feet high; Gerrards hill, nearly a mile southward of it, is 

 629 feet high and the summit of the head separating the entrances 

 to the northern and southern arms of Bonavista bay. 



Sailors harbor, southwestward of Cow head, is formed by several 

 islands which extend westward from Cow head on the north and by 

 the land about Gerrards hill on the south. It is 1 mile long north- 

 eastward and southwestward, | mile wide, and affords anchorage in 

 7 to 10 fathoms of water, rocky bottom. 



The entrance is about 200 yards wide and barely 200 yards north- 

 ward of the mainland; in the middle of the passage between the 

 mainland and Seal rock is a 10-foot patch, from which Seal rock 

 is in line with the western end of Sailors island, bearing 8°. The 

 northern fall of West Shag island, in line with a conspicuous 

 house, bearing 60°, leads through the entrance and southward of the 

 10-foot patch, in S^ fathoms of water; it also leads northward of a 

 shoal with 6 feet of water over it, which lies off the first point on the 

 southern side within the entrance. 



Salvage bay extends southwestward 4 miles from its entrance 

 between Sailors island and Bakers Loaf island, situated 1^ miles to 

 the westward ; there is a depth of 22 fathoms in the entrance, whence 

 it gradually shoals to the head, where there is fair summer anchorage 

 in 5 fathoms of water, sand bottom. 



