594 CAPE BONAVISTA TO CAPE RACE. 



and make short tacks between this line and the line of the leading 

 marks, until Greens hill opens southward of the church, when the 

 board to the southeastward may be prolonged. There is no tidal 

 stream in Harbor Grace. 



Ice. — Harbor Grace freezes over between Janunrv 10 and February 

 20, and is closed, at intervals, by ice G to 1.5 inches in thickness, be- 

 tween January 20 and the end of March, but the port has never been 

 closed for more than six weeks at a time ; the harbor ice sometimes 

 disappears as early as March 1, and at other times remains as late as 

 April 1. Vessels arrive and leave all the year, but are occasionally 

 detained by field ice. which appears from January 20 to February 20. 

 and disappears between May 1 and 20; in some seasons there is none. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Harbor Grace at 

 7h. 25m. ; springs rise 4;^ feet, neaps 3 feet. 



Marine railway. — There is a marine raihvay at Hai'bor Grace, DO 

 feet long and 16 feet broad, which takes a vessel of about 200-ton 

 burden and 110 feet long; the depth on the blocks at high water 

 ordinary springs is 9 feet forward and 12 feet aft. 



Communication. — Harbor Grace has railway and telegraphic com- 

 munication. There is a good road to Carbonear. 



Bryants cove. — The coast on the southeastern side of Feather 

 point trends southwestwarcl for lj% miles, where it forms Bryants 

 cove, a bight 700 yards wide and extending about 800 yards to 

 the southwestward, with several patches of rocks near the middle 

 that dry 2 feet. A conspicuous hill, up the valley, open southeast- 

 ward of a steep fall of the inner part of the northwestern shore of 

 the cove, bearing 244°, leads southeastward of the rocks, but the cove 

 is open northeastward and affords no shelter. 



Spare point, tlie southern entrance point of Bryants cove, has 

 several detached rocks above water near it ; from the point the coast 

 trends southwestward for 2 miles to Island cove, a rocky bight, 

 fronted b}' an islet, and thence the coast continues southwestward 

 for 1 mile to the northern entrance point of Spaniards bay. 



Spaniards bay is 1 mile Avide and extends west-southwestward 3^ 

 miles; its northern shore is generally clear of shoals at a short dis- 

 tance from it. 



The only safe anchorage in the bay is on the northern shore north- 

 ward of Green point, which is situated near its head and is 11*2 feet 

 high, in 4 to 8 fathoms of water, with Green point bearing westward 

 195° to avoid a shoal patch with a depth of 9 feet over it. The 

 southern side of the bay is exposed to a heavy sea, which sets in with 

 northeasterly gales, and the eastern part has several rocks extending 

 200 yards from it; farther in the water is shoal for 200 yards off- 

 .shore and at the head of the bav for nearlv 400 yards. 



