MAGGOTTY COVE SHOAL HARBOE, 575 



Communication. — The steamer from Clarenville calls at Hickman 

 harbor weekly during summer and autumn. 



Maggotty cove. — -At nearly If miles westward of Black Duck 

 cove, on the southern shore, is the Tolt, a remarkable conical hill, 550 

 feet high. Maggotty cove. 3^ miles westward of the Tolt, has 25 

 fathoms of water at 400 yards from the shore, and a large stream runs 

 into it, at the mouth of which is a sawmill ; the valley of this stream 

 runs southeastward toward Hatchers cove in Southwest arm with low 

 land right across. 



Bald Nap and Forster rocks. — From South bight, at the western 

 end of the arm, the sound is 24 miles across to Bald Nap and Forster 

 points on the northeastern shore ; these points are shelving and rocl^^, 

 with patches of rock and shoal water for about 600 yards off them. 



Gooseberry islet, just open southward of Lady point, bearing 89°, 

 leads southward of these shoals ; and Red Point hill in line with Bluff 

 point or Red man, bearing 330°, leads westward of them. 



Lower Shoal harbor, on the western shore, 4| miles northward of 

 South bight, is a small inlet, the head of which dries. 



Red point, on the western shore at Ix^ir miles northward of Lower 

 Shoal harbor, is a low cliff rising to Red Point hill, which is remark- 

 able and 517 feet high; the arm here is only ^ mile across to Brown 

 Mead, a spit of sand a few feet high, covered with grass and brush- 

 wood. 



Shoal harbor, on the western shore above Red point, is f mile wide 

 at the entrance, and at high water extends 1 mile within the line of 

 coast, but the deposit from a large stream, which runs into it, dries 

 outward ^ mile ; the depth gradually increases to 5 fathoms at f mile 

 from the dry bank. 



There is a village and a sawmill at Shoal harbor, the logs for Avhich 

 are brought down Shoal Harbor river; supplies are scarce. 



Communication. — There is railway communication. The stations 

 are at Shoal harbor and Clarenville, which is a settlement a little 

 below Lower Shoal harbor. There is a post-office at Shoal harbor, 

 but the telegraph office is at Lower Shoal harbor. A small steamer, 

 conveying mails and passengers, plies to and from the neighboring 

 settlements. (See p. 37.) 



Anchorag-e. — ^There is good anchorage from a line between Red 

 point and Brown Mead northward to the bar, a space 1^ miles long 

 and ^ mile wide. The depth decreases gradually from 24 f^tthoms 

 toward the bar, but rather suddenly on either shore. 



The most convenient berth for a man-of-war is with the white 

 houses at the head of Shoal harbor open of the wooded point on the 

 southern side of the harbor in 4 to 5 fathoms of water. 



