FOX HARBOR — PORT MARNHAM. 621 



and then in a sheet of foam, which would SAvamp any boat that might 

 encounter it. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in St. Lewis sound at 

 6h. 40m. ; springs rise S^ feet, neaps 1 foot. 



Fox harbor, westward If miles from the southeastern point of 

 cape St. Lewis, extends north-northeastward nearly 1 mile, and 

 has secure anchorage in 5 to 8 fathoms, mud bottom. The entrance 

 is only about 200 yards wide, with a depth of 3 fathoms, but the 

 liarbor is nearly I mile wnde within. Fishermen point, on the south- 

 ern side of the entrance, is low, and there are several fishermen's 

 houses upon it ; a small rock above water lies close northwestward of 

 the point and is joined to it by shoal water. 



In entering, leave the rock not over 100 yards to the southward, 

 for a reef, partly above water, extends southward nearly 200 yards 

 from the point, that separates the harbor from the unsheltered bay 

 westward of it, and forms the northern side of the entrance. . The 

 Ijest anchorage is about 600 yards within the entrance. 



Water can be taken from the streamlets and ponds, but w^ood is 

 very scarce. 



Shoals. — A bank, about 400 yards long, northward and southward, 

 and 200 yards wide, with a least depth of 5^ fathoms of water, lies 

 with its southern end about 665 yards southwestward of Fishermen 

 point. 



A shoal, with 13 feet of water on it, lies 250 yards otf the main- 

 land at ly\ miles westward of Fisherman point and nearly 1,200 

 3'ards southeastward of the boat channel into port Marnham. 



Port Marnham. — ^larnliam island, which is narrow and of con- 

 siderable height, extends westward, 1^ miles from a point of the 

 mainland at 3x% miles w'est-northwestward of the southeastern point 

 of cape St. Levfis. Port Marnham, northward of the island, is about 

 2^ miles long, 800 yards wide, and quite landlocked. The eastern 

 entrance, betw-een the eastern end of the island and the mainland, 

 is narrow, and only fit for boats. The entrance between the western 

 end of the island and Deer point is 800 yards wide, with depths of 

 19 to 31 fathoms in the middle, and clear to the rocks on either side. 



A shoal extends 300 yards from Danger point, at the middle of 

 the northern side of the port. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage anywhere in the port in 8 to 18 

 fathoms, mud bottom; the best position is off a small creek on the 

 northern shore in 9 fathoms, mud bottom. 



There is also secure anchorage in a more convenient depth of water, 

 but with less room for large vessels, in the w'estern part of the port. 



Water may be taken from the small streams, or ponds of rain water, 

 near the shores of the harbor. There are a few small trees up the 

 western cove, but firewood is scarce. 



