622 SOUTHEAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



Long" harbor is immediately southward of the promontory ter- 

 minating in Deer point, which divides it from port jMarnham. The 

 harbor extends w^estw^ard 4:^ miles, and is about ^ mile wide, with deep 

 water. There is anchorage near its head; but it is completely open 

 to the eastward, and is not safe. 



Bay point, the southern entrance point of Long harbor, situated 

 1^ miles south-southeastward from Deer point, is composed of green 

 feldspar. 



Sliag" rocks, 6 feet high, lie from 600 to 1,100 yards eastward of 

 Bay point. 



St. Lewis inlet is about 1 mile wide at its entrance between Shag 

 rocks and Anthony islands ; about 1,200 j^ards between Captain Jack 

 island and Bay Point promontory, where there are two islets and 

 some rocks; and it becomes wider within. There are bays with sev- 

 eral small islands in them on the southern side of the inlet, but be- 

 cause they are open to easterly winds, and on account of the great 

 depth of water, there is no good anchorage until within Black Fly 

 island, w^hich is 9 miles from the entrance and the first island in the 

 middle of the inlet above those at the entrance. The depth of water 

 often exceeds 30 fathoms in the middle and 20 fathoms close to the 

 shores on either side; and the bottom is everywhere mud. A small 

 rocky shoal, always above water, lies 2 miles below Black Fly island, 

 and must be left to the southward in running up the inlet. The inlet 

 is otherwise clear of shoals in the fairway. 



Black Fly island is about TOO yards long, partially wooded, and 

 surrounded with bowlders which extend COO yards from it down the 

 inlet and also from the northern point of the island to the mainland, 

 so that the channel southward of the island is the onh^ one navigable. 

 There is good anchorage on the southwestern side of this island, in 5 

 to fathoms, over a bottom of mud and stones, and wood and water 

 are abundant. 



Navigation becomes intricate ir.iinediately above Black Fly island, 

 but vessels not draAving over 18 feet can ascend for 5^ miles farther, 

 where a sand flat with bowlders, nearly dry at low water, extends 

 across the head of the inlet and the mouth of St. Lewis river. Wood 

 island. If miles above Black Fly island, is nearly 1 mile long, 600 

 yards broad, and it is surrounded with bowlders, leaving a very nar- 

 row channel with 2 fathoms of water southward of it, but the channel 

 northw^ard of the island is rather wider and has depths of 3 to 14 

 fathoms. The island and the shores on either side are thickly wooded 

 wdth spruce and birch, supplying timber suitable for building schoon- 

 ers and boats. 



The trees increase in number and size from the entrance to the 

 head of the inlet, owing to the change of climate. On the coast the 

 temperature of the sea is often at the freezing point, and the tem- 



