DAMNABLE BAY PRETTY ISLAND. 551 



Bakers Loaf island is 234 feet high and cliify. Bakers Loaf 

 rocks extend south-southeastward 900 yards from the island; the 

 outer patch has 9 feet of water over it. West Shag island, open 

 northeastward of Cow head, bearing 97°, leads northward; and the 

 break in the sand cliff at the bottom of Salvage bay, open south- 

 eastward of Baldric head, bearing 228°, leads southeastward of 

 them. 



Damnable bay extends westward about 2 miles from Avestward 

 of Bakers Loaf island; the outer part is deep, but among the islets 

 at the head the depth is moderate; there is no convenient harbor. 



Morris channel stretches northwestward 5^ miles to the Cowpath 

 from between Bakers Loaf and Morris islands. Brown Store island, 

 68 feet high, bears 311°, distant 1,600 yards, and Athwart island, 83 

 feet high, bearing 340°, distant 1y% niiles from the northern point of 

 Bakers Loaf island. 



A rock, with T feet of Avater over it, bears 183°, distant 400 yards 

 from the Coffee Pot, an islet south Avard of the western point of Morris 

 island, and a rock with 9 feet of water over it, bears 194°, distant 800 

 yards from the same islet. Shag islands, open southward of Athwart 

 island, bearing 101°, leads southward of these rocks. 



Bruce Cove rock, with 5 feet of water over it, bears 70°, distant | 

 mile from Bruce Cove Gull island; it has deep Avater around it, but 

 the channel northeastward of it is the Avider; so approach Tinker 

 island closel}^ in passing. 



Fair and False bay is on the southwestern side of Morris channel, 

 and, Avith the arms nortliAvestAvard of it, extends 4 miles from the line 

 of the shore. Squid island, 1^ miles southwestwarcl of Morris island, 

 forms the eastern entrance point; from it the shore, like the island, 

 low, broken, and rocky, trends southAvestward 2 miles into the bay; 

 the depth of Avater in the bay is 10 to 22 fathoms. The nortliAvestern 

 side is formed by se\'eral islands extending as far as Bloody point; 

 the channels among them are narroAv and generalW clear of shoals. 

 Middle reach, the southeastern, stretches soutliAvestAvard 1 mile, Avith 

 a breadth of 200 yards, and then opens out to a basin 4 mile across, 

 Avith a depth of 13 fathoms, mud bottom; three shoal arms branch 

 southward and AvestAvard from it. 



Middle reach is separated by a rocky channel from Long reach, 

 Avhich latter extends northwestward to the eastAvard of Bloody point; 

 Long reach is 200 j^ards wide, and in mid-channel is clear of shoals. 



'Pretty island, Avest-northwestAvard 1;^ miles from Squid island, 

 shelters Bloomer harbor, the outer part of which is 600 yards Avide, 

 with a depth of 13 fathoms of water, miid bottom ; the inner part has 

 an entrance 300 yards Avide, and it widens within to over 400 yards, 

 with a depth of 8 fathoms, mud bottom. 



