ST. LEWIS RIVER MARLEY ROCKS. 623 



perature of the air not much higher at times, even in the warmest 

 months. At the head of the inlet the weather is frequently incon- 

 veniently warm, and mosquitoes and black flies are innumerable. 



The Newfoundland fishermen obtain the wood thej^ require for 

 fishing stages from this inlet, and they sometimes build boats there. 

 The scenery is beautiful, the granite hills rising occasionally, on either 

 side of the inlet, to heights of 700 to 800 feet. There are high clay 

 cliffs at the mouth of St. Lewis river, at the head of the inlet. 



St. Lewis river. — As there is not water enough for boats over the 

 flats of sand and bowlders at the entrance of St. Lewis river, it has 

 not been examined. The water, however, is quite salt off its mouth, 

 so that it is probably, as fishermen report, but a small stream. 



River islands, or Anthony, Duck, and Captain Jack islands, lie 

 at the entrance to St. Lewis inlet. 



Anthony islands are two small rocks, the northeastern wedge- 

 shaped and bare, the southwestern pyramidal and covered vdth turf. 



Shoal ground, with a least depth of 4| fathoms of water over" it, is 

 situated 600 yards northwestward, and a rock with T feet of water 

 ■over it bears 61°, distant 600 yards from the northeastern Anthony 

 island. 



Duck and Captain Jack islands are each bare granite, 150 feet in 

 height, with a perimeter of about 3 miles. Around and off the north- 

 eastern end of Duck island there are several small and bare islets. 



A chain of rocks, the shoalest of which has a depth of 2 feet of 

 water over it, extends east-southeastward 600 yards from the north- 

 eastern part of Duck island, and a shoal with 3i fathoms of water 

 over it lies 800 yards farther in the same direction. 



The channel between Duck island and Captain Jack island is filled 

 with rocks and is not navigable; the passage between these islands 

 and the mainland to the westward is from 12 to 53 fathoms deep, and, 

 as a considerable swell rolls in, it is an insecure anchorage. 



Club cape, a high point on the mainland, lies southwestward Jry^ 

 miles from cape St. Lewis, and a reef extends 140 yards northeast- 

 ward of it. 



Kyer cove, 1^ miles southwestward of Club cape, is open to the 

 northeasterly swell and should not be entered. 



Marley rocks, off' the entrance to Kyer cove, and bearing 269°, 

 distant l^jj miles from Kyer Cove point, which is situated ^ mile 

 westward of Club cape, are about 600 yards long, eastward and 

 westward, 200 yards wide, and have a least depth of 6 feet of water 

 over them. Green island, open northward of Kyer Cove point, bear- 

 ing 94°, leads northward of these rocks. 



A small rock, with 10 feet of water over it, is situated 800 yards 

 southward of Marley rocks, and 550 yards from the eastern shore of 

 Kyer cove. 



