592 CAPE BONAVISTA TO CAPE PtACE. 



Feather point, southward, distant 1^ miles from Old Sow point 

 and on the southern side of Harbor Grace entrance, is the termina- 

 tion of a ridge of hills; the Haypuk is a slate rock 20 feet high 

 northeast Avard of and just disconnected from the point. 



Harbor Grace islands, northeastward f mile from Feather point, 

 comprise a cluster of small islets and rocks extending north-northeast- 

 ward about ^ mile, with a width of 400 yards ; the northeastern and 

 principal islet is 105 feet high, and there is a summer fishing village 

 on the southwestern islet. Between 200 and 400 yards northeastward 

 of Harbor Grace islands are some islets or rocks, the outer of which 

 is Eastern rock, 79 feet high ; and at 400 yards northward of Eastern 

 rock is White rock, consisting of rocky ground with 4 fathoms of 

 water over it, on which the sea breaks. 



Ragged rocks, at 400 yards westward of the southwestern Harbor 

 Grace island, are 35 feet high, and between them and the shallow 

 ground off Feather point is a channel 400 yards wide, with 3 to 4 

 fathoms of water, but this passage requires local knowledge, as there 

 is no good leading mark for it. 



Light. — A square white house, with a red roof, from the middle of 

 which rises the lantern, 35 feet high, on the northeastern Harbor 

 Grace island, exhibits, at 151 feet above high water, an intermittent 

 white light, every four and one-quarter seconds thus : Light, two and 

 one-eighth seconds; eclipse, two and one-eighth seconds, which is 

 visible seaward over an arc of 180° between the bearings 352° and 

 172°, and should be seen from a distance of 15 miles in clear weather; 

 the light being unwatched must be considered unreliable. 



Harbor Grace extends southwestward 4J miles from between Old 

 Sow and Feather points, with a breadth decreasing from lj% miles 

 at the entrance to 600 yards near its head. The hills on either side 

 rise to the height of 500 feet. 



. The town, situated on the northwestern shore of the harbor, is clean 

 and well laid out, and has an abundant water supply from a lake a 

 little inland from it. There are large stores for dried codfish, ma- 

 chinery for the manufacture of seal oil, and refining cod liver oil, 

 also for preparing boneless codfish, tinning caplin, and making glue 

 from skins and guano from bones of the fish. In 1901 the population 

 was 6,184. 



The Roman Catholic church, the northeastern of three churches, 

 has two spires, which in line bear 60° and 240°. 



Long- Harry rock, close off the northwestern shore of Harbor 

 Grace, at f mile southwestward of Old Sow point, is 72 feet high. 



Salvage rock, bearing 172°, distant 700 yards from Long Harry, is 

 small and 53 feet high, with deep water around, but a heavy sea 

 breaks 65 vards inside it. 



