628 SOUTHEAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



An islet, some 60 feet across and 15 feet high, lies close to the south- 

 eastern end of Copper island; and a rock, about 5 feet high, is at- 

 tached to the southern end of this islet. 



Hare island rises to a flat-topped hill, 192 feet high, near its north- 

 western end, and a peaked hill, 155 feet high, near its eastern end; 

 it is separated from Assizes island by a channel 65 3^ards wide, which 

 has numerous rocks in it, and should not be used. 



Shoals, with depths of 10 to 18 feet, extend oOO yards eastward 

 from the northeastern side of Hare island, and others fringe its 

 southeastern coast for 150 yards. The eastern point of Tilcey island 

 just open northeastward of the eastern point of Little Caribou island, 

 bearing 143°, leads close northeastward, and the sharp peak at the 

 western end of the range in the middle of Great Caribou island open 

 northward of Indian island, bearing 78°, leads northward of these 

 shoals. 



On the western side of Hare island a rock, with less than 6 feet over* 

 it, lies with the western point of Dumpling island bearing 217°, dis- 

 tant ^ mile. The space between Hare and Assizes islands, being foul 

 ground and shoal Avater of 2 to 3 fathoms, should not be entered. 



It is stated by local fishermen that the water between Dumpling 

 island and the mainland to the southwestward is shoal. 



Assizes rock, with 4 feet water over it, is the shoalest pait of a 

 bank 335 yards long north and south, and nearly 200 yards wide, 

 situated 200 yards westward of the western part of Indian island. 

 The eastern summit of Tilcey island (near its eastern end) in line 

 with the eastern point of Little Caribou island, bearing 145°, leads 

 southwestward ; and cape St. Lewis, open westward of Caribou point, 

 bearing about 13°, leads westward of this rock, and nearly over Mid 

 rock. 



A shoal with 4f fathoms water over it, bears 252°, distant 150 yards 

 from the northern point of Indian island. 



Mid rock, bearing 340°, distant 800 yards from the northern point 

 of Indian island, has 8 feet of water over it. The eastern point of 

 Little Caribou island, open westward of the southwestern side of 

 Indian island, bearing 155°, leads westward; and the eastern summit 

 of Hare island in line with the southern end of the islet southward 

 of Copper island, bearing 209°, leads northwestward of this rock. 



Assizes harbor trends westward 700 yards between Copper and 

 Hare islands, with a breadth of 450 yards, and then turns sharply 

 southwestward for 650 yards between Assizes and Hare islands, where 

 it is 400 yards wide. It is entered from the northward by a channel, 

 less than 100 yards in width, between Assizes and Copper islands, and 

 from the southward, between Copper and Hare islands. There are 

 a few houses on a promontory about 20 feet high, near the head of the 

 harbor. 



