584 CAPE BONAVISTA TO CAPE RACE. 



and 1 mile Avide, with generally deep water, is divided at the head 

 into two coves by a point from which shoal water extends for 300 

 yards ; the western shore should not be approached within 300 yards. 



Anchorage may be obtained off Dildo cove in 8 fathoms water, 

 with shelter from northeasterly winds ; or off the southeastern of the 

 two coves at the head in 12 fathoms, with shelter except from north- 

 erly^ winds. The western of the two coves is shoal. 



Dildo islands, a group 60 feet high, extend northward nearly a 

 mile from a position about 1,400 yards northward of the northern 

 end of the promontory forming the western side of the arm, and 

 about the same distance west-southwestward of the eastern entrance 

 point of the arm. Not more than 7 fathoms of water can be carried 

 in mid-channel over the bar joining the islands to the northern end 

 of the western point of the arm. 



There is a cod hatchery on one of the Dildo islands, and the propa- 

 gation of lobsters is carried on. 



Ice.— Dildo arm freezes occasionally about the middle or end of 

 February, and the ice clears about the middle or end of March. In 

 1884 the whole of Trinity bay southward of a line joining Tickle 

 Harbor point and Hopeall head was frozen for about a week ; and in 

 1887 an iceberg remained in this part of the bay till August 9, which 

 is the latest known date. Northern ice arrives about every five years, 

 and generally in April, but seldom remains a week. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Dildo arm at 6h. 40m. ; 

 springs rise 4^ feet. 



Communication. — There is railway communication ; the station is 

 at Broad cove, southward 3 miles from Dildo. 



Newi harbor. — -The shore from the eastern entrance point of Dildo 

 arm trends northward for 1^ miles to the southern point of New 

 harbor, which has a line of rocks stretching from the southern shore 

 within which fishing craft find good shelter; a large village is situated 

 at its head. 



The shore from the head of New harbor trends northwestward and 

 northward for 3 miles to Hopeall head, the western entrance point 

 of Hopeall bay. 



Hopeall bay extends 2 J miles southeastward and is nearly Ih miles 

 wide at the entrance, narrowing to the head, which is 1,300 yards 

 broad and has a few houses around it. The Avater within the entrance 

 deepens to 22 fathoms, and then shoals gradually to the head, where 

 there is anchorage in 9 fathoms of water, sheltered from all except 

 westerly and northerly winds. 



Hopeall island, westward 700 yards from the northeastern point 

 of Hopeall bay, is 75 feet high ; the passage between the island and 

 point should not be taken, but the island is bold-to on the northern 

 and western sides. 



