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keeper's dwelling and a store, painted white with red roofs, stand 

 close northward of the lighthouse. 



Random sound. — The entrance to this sound is between East 

 Random head and West Random head, which bear southwestward 

 and northeastward, distant 3^ miles from each other; at 5^ miles 

 within East Random head is Middle cliff, 357 feet high, where the 

 sound divides into two branches. 



Ice. — Random sound freezes, in severe winters, about February 10, 

 and the ice breaks up between April 10 and 20. 



Northwest arm. — At 3 miles westward of East Random head is 

 a small islet 40 feet high, and 800 yards farther on another islet 

 at the entrance to Salmon cove; these islets are separated from the 

 shore by deep water. 



Salmon Cove extends northw^ard 800 yards, and at its head is a 

 salmon fishing station. 



Strong islands, on the northern shore of the arm at 2f miles 

 within Salmon cove, are two principal islands, 123 feet and 146 feet 

 high, respectively, with a few rocks above water. Running north- 

 ward of these islands is Strong tickle, which is nearly f mile long and 

 100 yards wide, with a depth of 4 to 10 fathoms of water, except near 

 its head, where there is 1^ fathoms. 



Quarry rock, bearing 217°, distant 400 yards from the southern 

 point of the western Strong island, has 12 feet of water over it; the 

 j)oint just westward of Tolt point, open southward of Gooseberry 

 islet, bearing 260°, leads southward of the rock. 



Gooseberry islet, 66 feet high, lies nearly in mid-channel at 1^; 

 miles westward of the Strong islands, and from it the first reach of 

 Northwest arm continues westward for 7^ miles. The depth in mid- 

 channel decreases from 90 to 60 fathoms, and the shore is steep-to and 

 without anchoring ground. 



The coast from Middle cliff, the eastern end of the promontory 

 separating the two arms of Random sound, is steep cliff, and trends 

 northwestward 1} miles to Passenger point, at 800 yards, beyond 

 which is Holloway rock, close off a steep point. This point separates 

 two coves, and ^ mile westward of it is Pudding point, the rocky 

 termination of a ridge of hills, which attains a height of 548 feet. At 

 f mile farther westward is Black Duck cove, ^ mile deep, with 5 to 20 

 fathoms of water. 



Hickman harbor, opposite Black Duck cove, is 600 yards wide at 

 the entrance, and extends northward f mile ; on its northeastern shore 

 is a bed of rocks with 1^ to 6 feet of water over them, and elsewhere 

 the depth is 8 to 18 fathoms, gravel and mud bottom. This harbor is 

 1 mile from the western Strong island, and on the coast between, 

 at about 1,400 yards from the western Strong island, there are slate 

 quarries. 



