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Ice. — Heart's Content generally freezes over between the end of 

 January and the middle of February, and the ice clears about the 

 end of March. The northern ice usually arrives about the middle of 

 April and leaves about the middle of May. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Hearts Content, at 

 7h. 30m.; springs rise 4 feet, neaps 2^ feet. 



Communication. — The steamer from Clarenville calls at Hearts 

 Content weekly during summer and autumn. 



The coast from Norther point to Garlep point, 2 miles northward, 

 consists of low cliffs, and should not be approached within 200 yards 

 from the points. Bacon Cove head, a conical wooded hill, 132 feet 

 high, is 1,100 yards from Norther point. 



White rock, bearing 319°, distant | mile from Norther point, has 

 6 fathoms of water over it. Sugarloaf, well open northwestward of 

 Garlej) point, .bearing 32°, leads northwestward; and Hearts Con- 

 tent church, open southward of Norther point, bearing 122°, leads 

 southwestward of White rock. 



Wew Perlican, entered between Garlep point, which is steep-to, 

 and Jeans head, a bold bluff sloping from a hill 280 feet high, sep- 

 arating it from Turks cove, has two coves in its southern side. 

 Fitters cove, the western, extends 4 mile to the southward, and is 

 open, with shoal water skirting its shores. The eastern cove or har- 

 bor proper, situated eastward of Fitters cove, extends 700 yards 

 to the southward and has a width of 400 yards, the entrance narrow- 

 ing gradually to the head, from which shoal water extends 350 yards. 



This harbor is only suitable for fishing craft, which anchor in 

 3 fathoms of water near the western shore, to avoid a rock with 4 

 feet of water over it, which lies a short distance off the first fishing 

 stages on the eastern shore ; larger vessels anchor off the entrances of 

 these coves, in a depth of 8 fathoms, with Bloody point, that divides 

 the coves, bearing 150°. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in New Perlican at 

 7h. 30m. ; springs rise 4 feet, neaps 2^ feet. 



Turks cove is an open bight containing a few houses. The Sugar- 

 loaf, ^ mile northward of Turks cove, is a conspicuous conical hill 

 415 feet high. 



Scilly cove, one mile north-northeastward of Turks cove, and on 

 the northeastern side of the Sugarloaf, extends southeastward 500 

 yards and is 400 yards wide at the entrance, narrowing gradually to 

 the head ; some rocks lie close off the northeastern point. 



It is a fine boat harbor, though open northwestward, and a con- 

 siderable settlement is situated around it. 



The coast. — Kings head lies north-northeastward, distant 2 miles 

 from Scilly cove, and the coast between Kings head and Salvage 

 point, situated 8 miles to the northeastward, is so encumbered by 



