600 CAPE BONAVISTA TO CAPE RACE. 



Cape St. Francis, the southeastern entrance point of Conception 

 bay, forms two low bills, off the western of which are two small islets. 



Light. — A building with a flat roof, on which is a square block with 

 the lantern above it, painted white and 45 feet high, on the eastern 

 bill of cape St. Francis, exhibits, at 123 feet above high water, a 

 fixed red light which should be seen from a distance of 12 miles in 

 clear weather. 



Fog signal. — A fog siren trumpet, placed in a white building with 

 a flat roof attached to the lighthouse, is sounded every minute, thus: 

 blast, five seconds; silence, five seconds; blast, five seconds; silence, 

 forty-five seconds, during thick or foggy weather. 



Signals. — Cape St. Francis lighthouse is supplied with the inter- 

 national code signals. 



The Brandies are three rocks with 4 to 12 feet of water over them, 

 which constitute the extreme of rocky ground extending from some 

 islets and rocks southeastward of the cape, from which the outer rock 

 bears 72°, distant 1,600 yards. Torbay point open of Black head, 

 bearing 164°, leads eastward about 1:^ miles from the Brandies. 



The coast from cape St. Francis trends southeastward for 4:^ miles 

 to Black head, and thence southward 2^ miles to Red head; it is 

 generally steep cliff. Pouch cove, nearly 3 miles from cape St. 

 Francis, is small and open : Black head, the southeastern point of this 

 cove, is about 400 feet high. 



Cliff rock, bearing 345°, distant nearly 1^ miles from Black head, 

 is a small patch with 8 fathoms of water over it. 



Red head is 274 feet high and very conspicuous, being of a deep 

 red color. 



Flat Rock cove entrance is between Red head and Flat Rock point, 

 which bear north-northwestward and south-southeastward, distant 

 1,400 yards from each other, and the cove extends south-southwest- 

 ward J mile, with a width of about 800 yards. A red house and three 

 white houses, situated at an elevation of 455 feet on the hills about 1 

 mile westward from Flat Rock cove, also a red church, the steeple 

 of which is 284 feet above the sea, on the western shore of the cove, 

 show out prominently ; but the church is obscured from the south- 

 eastward by the land sloping down to Flat Rock point. 



Flat Rock point is low and barren. A ledge extends north-north- 

 eastward, nearly 400 yards from the point, at w^hich distance there is 

 a depth of 4|^ fathoms; there are rocky ledges on the eastern side of 

 the point. 



Tor bay. — Torbay point lies 2f miles south-southeastward from 

 Flat Rock point, and Tor bay extends southwestward 2| miles from 

 between them. 



From Flat Rock point the cliffs rise gradually as Tor bay is entered, 

 but, at about li miles southward from the point, they rise more 



