OFFER ROCK NEWMAN SOUND. 553 



Offer rock, bearing 51°, distant 1,600 yards from the northeastern 

 point of Little Denier island, is awash, and always breaks. Tilleys 

 hill, open southward of Little Denier island, bearing 244°, leads 

 southward; Hammer head, "open northwestward of Little Denier 

 island, bearing 222°, leads northwestward; and the cliff at North 

 point of Cow head over the southwestern end of West Shag island, 

 bearing 273°, leads northward of it. 



Middle rock, with 9 feet of water over it, and Inner rock, with 5 

 feet of water over it, lie between Offer rock and Little Denier island. 



Barrow harbor is southwestward of Little Denier island. Rich- 

 ards island, a large flat mound, 289 feet high, steep to the eastward, 

 lies on the southern side of the entrance. Keats island, the eastern 

 end of which, known as Hammer head, is 259 feet high, forms the 

 southern side of the harbor. 



From Pulpit head, the northeastern point of Richards island, a 

 reef extends northeastward f mile: Outer Brandy rock, at its outer 

 end, has 5 feet of water over it. The eastern end of Shag islands in 

 line with the western end of Litle Denier island, bearing 343°, leads 

 eastward of it. As no mark can be given to lead between Outer 

 Brandy rock and the shoal water off Little Denier island, this channel 

 into Barrow harbor should not be taken without local knowledge. 



The depth of water is great and the shelter indifferent in Barrow 

 harbor, so it can not be recommended. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Barrow harbor at 

 6h. 13m. ; springs rise 4^ feet, neaps 2 J feet. 



Ice. — Bishops, Barrow, and Sailors harbors freeze over in the 

 middle of January, and the ice generally breaks up in April. 



Wewman sound lies between the highland stretching west-south- 

 westward from Hammer head, on the north, and Long islands and the 

 land stretching westward to mount Stamford, on the south ; near the 

 middle is Swale island, 4^ miles long, east-northeastward and west- 

 sou thwestward, and about a mile wide at its broadest part. 



Halfway islet, 300 yards from the northern shore of Newman sound 

 and 4 miles west-southwestward of Richards island, is 18 feet high; 

 the shore between them is cliffy and steep-to. 



Sandy cove, westward, 1 mile from Halfway islet, is an open bay 

 -h mile wide, with a depth of 5 to 10 fathoms, sand bottom. 



Holbrook head, west-northwestward, 2f miles from Halfway islet, 

 is a salient point. 



Happy Adventure bays, between Sandy cove and Holbrook head, 

 are small and so narrow as to be available for boats onlj^ 



North Broad cove lies westward 1^ miles from Holbrook head; 

 there is a rock, that dries 1 foot at low water spring tides, at nearly 

 200 yards from its northeastern head, and also a rock, with 9 feet of 



