VERGE ISLAND EAST RANDOM HEAD. 573 



entrance is 100 yards wide, with a depth of 5 fathoms in it, between 

 a small, low islet on the north and the rocks close off a point on the 

 south. 



Ice. — Deer harbor is frozen in February and the ice breaks up at 

 the latter part of April. 



Verge island, about 600 yards from the coast and nearly midway 

 between East head and East Random head, is 204 feet high; rocky 

 islets extend northward ^ mile from its northwestern end and termi- 

 nate in Black rock, small and 30 feet high; rocky islets also extend 

 southward 600 yards from its southwestern end, Rat island, the 

 largest, being 65 feet high. Copper islet, 130 feet high, lies 600 

 yards off the southeastern end of the island, Avith rocks between ; and 

 Verge rock, which dries, is situated 300 3'ards off the northeastern 

 end of the island. 



Deer rock, bearing 84°, distant nearly a mile from the northeastern 

 end of Verge island, is small, has 4 feet of Avater over it, and is 

 generally marked by a breaker, except at high water with a smooth 

 sea. 



Gun kdge, north-nortlieastA\ ard about i mile from Deer rock, has 

 6 fathoms of water over it, with 21 fathoms between. Bonaventure 

 head, midway between Duck and Green islands, bearing 26°, leads 

 eastward; Bakers loaf in line with the western points of Bird islets, 

 bearing 349°, leads westward of Deer rock and Gun ledge; and Gin- 

 picker hill, in line with the northern entrance point to Deer harbor, 

 276°, leads northward of Gun ledge. 



Random Head harbor, on the northern side of East Random 

 head, is about ^ mile square, with depths of 10 to 18 fathoms of water ; 

 the southern and western shores are much indented, and rocks extend 

 600 yards off them. The northern shore is bold, and here smaill ves- 

 sels anchor in a bight, but with this exception the harbor is not 

 recommended. Pigeon islet, on the northern side of the entrance, is 

 flat and about 40 feet high; a reef extends southeastward 300 yards 

 from it and terminates in Mouse rock, which is awash. The passage 

 between Mouse rock and the southern shore is 600 yards wide. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Random Head harbor 

 at 7h. 8m. ; springs rise 3^ feet, neaps 2^ feet. 



East Random head, the southeastern point of Random island, is 

 512 feet high, and the termination of a range of hills which rises to 

 the height of 808 feet; the eastern end of the head is composed of 

 several quoin-shaped masses. 



Lig-ht. — A circular lighthouse. 36 feet high and checkered red and 

 white, on Motion island, close eastward of East Random head, exhibits, 

 at 126 feet above high water, an intermittent white light every four 

 seconds showing thus : Light, two seconds ; eclipse, two seconds, which 

 should be seen from a distance of 13 miles in clear weather. The 



