586 CAPE BON AVISTA TO CAPE RACE. 



is small and has 5 fatlioms water over it. Siigarloaf, in line with 

 Shiiffleboard, bearing 32°, leads eastward of the rock. 



Heart's Desire is an open cove affording anchorage, with offshore 

 winds only, in C to 13 fathoms water. Gannet point is the south- 

 western entrance point, and a reef extends 200 yards from a low 

 point in the middle of the sonthern side of the cove. 



There is a settlement here. 



Hanging hill, eastward 2^ miles from Heart's Desire, is 650 feet 

 high and remarkable from Trinity bay. 



Ice. — Heart's Desire freezes in February or early in March, and the 

 ice clears in March; field ice arrives about April 15 and leaves about 

 May 8. arriving later and leaving earlier according to the season. 



The coast from Shuffleboard, a conspicuous hill 422 feet high on 

 the coast, close w^ithin the northeastern entrance point of Heart's De- 

 sire, trends north-northeastward If miles to Seal Cove head, which 

 is 286 feet high, with a remarkable landslip to seaward. 



Seal cove, northeastward 1,200 yards from Seal Cove head, is a 

 small, open, rocky bight, and from it the coast continues northeast- 

 ward 1,600 yards to Souther point, the western entrance point of 

 Heart's Content. 



Heart's Content. — The entrance to this harbor is 800 yards wide 

 between Souther point on the western side and Norther point on 

 the eastern side; thence the harbor extends southeastward 1^ miles, 

 and in the middle it is 1 mile wide, with soundings of 7 to 20 fathoms ; 

 it is open northward. The town lies along the eastern shore, and be- 

 hind it is a lake, and Mizen hill, 670 feet high. 



Light. — A circular light-house, 30 feet high and painted red and 

 white spirally, on Norther point, exhibits at 83 feet above high 

 water a fixed red light, which should be seen from a distance of 12 

 miles in clear weather. The light is visible seaward over an arc of 

 89^°, between the bearings 83° and 172^°, being shut in by the land 

 from other directions. A small dwelling is connected to the southern 

 side of the light-house by a covered way; the dwelling and covered 

 way are painted white with black roofs. 



Telegraph, cables. — Six telegraph cables are landed at Heart's 

 Content, and every spring, as soon as the harbor is clear of ice, three 

 buo^^s, painted red and white, are laid down ; two marking the north 

 and south and the third the east and west lines of the cables. 



Anchorag'e. — To avoid fouling the cables, vessels should anchor in 

 one of the two clear spaces in the harbor, viz : To the northeastward 

 of the line to the point, situated 1,100 yards southwestward of the 

 church, bearing 155°, and northward of the line of the church bear- 

 ing 104°, or to the southeastward of the line of the church bearing 

 48°. 



