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Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Sjjaniards bay at 

 Th. 45m.; springs rise 4^ feet, neaps rise 3 feet. 



Communication. — There is a railway station at Spaniards Bay 

 road, at the head of the bay. 



Mad point is tlie northeastern termination of the peninsula, 'S% 

 miles long, separating Spaniards bay from bay Roberts. Mad rocks, 

 12 feet high, extend northeastward about | mile from the north- 

 eastern side of the point, and the broken ground, with less than 10 

 fathoms of water over it, extends 1,200 yards farther southeastward, 

 over which, during an easterly swell, the sea rolls up to the dry rocks, 

 and breaks over them. In heavy weather the point should not be 

 approached on southwesterly bearings nearer than 1 mile. 



Bay Roberts, southward of the peninsula terminating in Mad 

 point, and between it and the narroAV peninsula, 4 miles long, termi- 

 nating in Green point, is about 3| miles long and nearly 1 mile 

 broad. Fergus islet, 134 feet high, with a round summit, lies 400 

 yards from the northern shore at about 1 mile within Mad point. 



Roberts harbor, northw^ard of Coldeast point, at the head of the 

 bay, is a safe anchorage and easy of access; it extends west-southwest- 

 ward 1 mile, with an average breadth of 400 yards, and the water 

 shoals gradually from 10 fathoms at the entrance, mud bottom, and 

 good holding ground. The town, with two churches and some fish- 

 ing establishments, is on the northern shore of the harbor, and has 

 a population of 2,226. Vessels drawing 12 feet of water lie at the 

 wharves at any time of tide. 



The southeastern shore of bay Roberts is foul for the distance of 

 200 yards off, and there is no safe anchorage on this side of the bay. 



Ice. — Bay Roberts freezes occasionally, and then the bay fills 

 with ice. 



Communication. — Bay Roberts railway station is about GOO yards 

 southwestward of the head of Roberts harbor. There is telegraphic 

 communication. 



Green point is the northeastern end of the peninsula, separating 

 bay Roberts on the north from bay de Grave on the south. Southern 

 rocks, close northward of the point, are 14 feet high, and broken 

 ground extends 400 yards from the point. 



Lights. — A circular lighthouse, 32 feet high and painted with two 

 red and three white horizontal bands, on. Green point, exhibits, at 

 .56 feet above high water, a fixed white light, which should be seen 

 from a distance of 8 miles in clear weather. 



Beneath the principal light is a projecting lantern, which exhibits 

 three lights. The two outer lights show white, and the middle light, 

 in line with Southern rocks, bearing 197°, shows red. 



A storehouse in rear of the lighthouse is painted w'hite. 



