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middle 9 fathoms, and the eastern 6 fathoms. The anchorage is about 

 400 yards in extent, with 6 to 7 fathoms of water, mud bottom. Cat 

 cove, northward of Maiden islet, is small, and affords no anchorage. 



New Bonaventure harbor. — Between Maiden point and Wolf 

 head, situated If miles to the westward, are New Bonaventure harbor, 

 Broad cove, and Kerley harbor, all bights open southward. At the 

 head of New Bonaventure and 300 yards from the shore, there is a 

 shoal patch with 3 fathoms of water over it. The harbor is not at 

 all times safe for shipping. New Bonaventure village is at the head 

 of the bay on the eastern shore, and its church is in a commanding 

 position and conspicuous. 



Ice does not form so soon as, and breaks up earlier than, at Old 

 Bonaventure. 



Broad Cove rocks, on the western side of New Bonaventure, and 

 in the entrance to Broad cove, dry 2 feet. New Bonaventure church 

 bearing northward 25°, and well open of the point opposite the vil- 

 lage, leads eastward of them. 



Kerley harbor, an inlet extending northward h mile, and 200 

 yards wide, with a depth of 23 fathoms at the entrance gradually 

 shoaling to its head, affords good anchorage, but the space is confined. 



The shore of Smith sound from AVolf head trends southwestward 

 for 1| miles to British harbor point, a remarkable flat-topped cliff; 

 midway along this stretch of coast there is a point which, from its 

 artificial appearance, is named Battery point; inland from it are steep 

 barren hills 600 to 700 feet high. 



British harbor, between British Harbor point and West point, 

 a small rocky promontor}^, steep-to, at ^ mile to the southwestward, 

 extends northward about 1 mile, and narrows to 200 yards with 

 a depth of 7 fathoms at f mile within the entrance ; there is anchorage 

 in a space about 300 3'ards across above these narrows in 10 to 12 

 fathoms of water, mud bottom. The head of the harbor forms into 

 3 little bays, on the shores of which are the houses of fishermen. 



A rock, with 4 feet of water over it, lies outside the narrows and 

 100 yards from the eastern shore; to avoid it, keep the western shore 

 aboard. 



Communication. — The steamer from Clarenville calls at British 

 harbor weekly during summer and autumn. 



The coast from West point to Pope harbor, west-south westward 

 l-^^J miles, is broken and rocky; midway is Darby cove, where there 

 are a few houses and fishing stages behind a small peninsula ; and a 

 rock, with 3 feet of water over it, lies 100 yards off a small cove at 

 COO yards eastward of Pope harbor. 



Pope harbor. — At the entrance to Pope harbor there are two rocks 

 above water, the western being 18 feet high ; and there are other rocks 

 uncovered, northeastward of them. The two western channels formed 



