INDIAN ISLAND COPPER ISLAND. 627 



A narrow channel, with a depth of 3^ fathoms in it, runs between 

 this shoal and the ledge of Little Caribou island (see p. 629), but 

 there is no leading mark. 



A rock, with 15 feet of water over it, lies northwestward of this 

 shoal, and bears 1()6°, distant 450 yards from the southern point of 

 Indian island; a small shoal, with a depth of 4:^ fathoms of water, 

 bears 190°, distant 300 yards from the same point. 



Indian island, 75 feet high, covered with turf over reddish gray 

 rock, and generally flat, is joined at low water to the middle of the 

 western side of Great Caribou island by a bank of gravel on which 

 are several low rocks. 



Indian cove, the shallow channel between Indian island and Great 

 Caribou island, affords good shelter for fishing craft, as far south- 

 ward as the first narrows, beyond which only small boats can proceed. 

 Numerous houses and fishing stages border this cove. 



Mouse island, a small white rock, 14 feet high, ^ mile northward of 

 Indian island, is separated from Great Caribou island by a narrow 

 channel, with a depth of 9 feet of water in it. A rock, Avith (> feet of 

 water over it, lies close to the iiorthAvestern end of Mouse island. 



Caribou point, the northwestern point of Great Caribou island, 

 rises to a circular hill. 130 feet high. The point has a striped appear- 

 ance, caused by alternating black and white terraces of rock in verti- 

 cal stratification. 



Assizes island, one of the hirge islands on the southern side of 

 St. Lewis sound and situated on the western side of the northern en- 

 trance to Caribou channel, is partly covered with turf and small 

 wood ; and the underlying rock, where visible, is white, A hill near 

 the middle of the island, 280 feet high, generally flat at the summit, 

 with a fcAv snuill rises, falls steeply to Nimrod tickle on the north- 

 western and Assizes harbor on the southeastern side. 



The Rags, a cluster of rocks, the highest of which is 8 feet high, lie 

 close to the northern side of Assizes island; there is a depth of 5 

 fathoms at about 200 yards off them. 



The eastern coast of Assizes island is indented by deep fissures, and 

 fringed by Parsons ground, a bank, the northern portion of which 

 has 7^ fathoms over it. 



A bank, with 9 fathoms of Avater, bears 78°, distant 1,300 yards 

 from the Rags. 



Copper island, on the eastern side of Assizes harbor, is wedge- 

 shaped, and has its summit, 137 feet high, near the northern end. 

 The northern side of the island falls steeply, and is cliffy in places. 

 Near the southern part of its southwestern coast, there is a small 

 green sward. 



