BACKSIDE COVE — KINGS COVE. 559 



Backside cove, on the eastern side of Keels eastern headland, 

 affords no shelter. 



Ice. — Keels cove fills in with northern ice and freezes Avhile the 

 ice remains on the coast. 



Southern head is a steep cliff rising- to a hill 532 feet high. 



Black Head bay. — Black head lies T| miles eastAvard of Southern 

 head, and Black Head bay extends southward 5i miles from between 

 them; it is clear of shoals; some open coves in it have a few scattered 

 inhabitants, but afford no shelter for ships. 



Ice. — Black Head bay fills in with northern ice and clears when the 

 ice leaves the coast. 



Broad cove is immediately soutlnvard of Southern head; tliere is a 

 village on its shores. 



Broad head is a bluff, 317 feet high, with a front tj mile long, 

 northwestward and southeastward, separating Broad cove from 

 Kings cove. 



Kings cove is small, 700 yards long, northeastward and southwest- 

 w^ard. shoaling gradualW from a depth of 20 fathoms at the entrance, 

 wdiich is 300 yards wide, to the beach. 150 yards wide, at the head. It 

 is open to the northeastward, but is said to be a safe anchorage for 

 small vessels, which, as the water shoals suddenly, do not drag in- 

 shore, but at times drift to sea. 



Light. — A white cylindrical lighthouse. 37 feet high, on Kings 

 cove northern head, exhibits at 176 feet above high water, a white 

 group-flashing Mdiite light showing two flashes every five seconds, 

 which should be seen from a distance of 14 miles in clear weather. 

 The light being unwatched must be considered unreliable. 



There is a store and keeper's dwelling, painted white with a black 

 roof, close to the lighthouse. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Kings cove at 7h. 

 15m. ; springs rise 3^ feet, neaps 2^ feet. 



Communication. — The steamer from port Blandford calls at 

 Kings cove weekly during summer and autumn. 



The shore trends north-northeastward for 5 miles from Black 

 head to Green island, and between are Bonavista, Bailey cove, and 

 Red cove, three small bays. 



Bonavista is the southern of these coves, and the only one afford- 

 ing anchorage, the others being encumbered by rocks and more open. 

 In approaching Bonavista from the eastward do not close the shore 

 nearer than to have the western end of Gull island just open west- 

 ward of Green island, bearing 37°, until Squarey islet bears 149°; 

 then pass close to that islet, to clear a shoal with 3^ fathoms water 

 over it, which lies nearly 200 yards southwestward of the islet, and 

 anchor in 6 fathoms water ; this cove is only available for vessels dur- 

 ing summer. Squarey islet, the western of a ridge of rocks forming 

 the northern side of the bay, is 43 feet high. 



