634 SOUTHEAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



part basalt and amygdaloid ; there are three or four flat-topped iron- 

 stone deposits. 



Shoal water extends about 400 yards seaward from some of these 

 islands. 



Allen shoal, lying with the outer Peterel island, bearing 269°, dis- 

 tant If miles, has a depth of 8 fathoms over rocky bottom; the sea 

 breaks on the shoal in heavy Aveather. 



St. Peter bay, westward of St. Peter and Peterel islands and on the 

 southwestern side of Table head, extends about 2 miles inland. It is 

 completely oi^en to the eastw^ard, but the islets and reefs form a 

 breakwater. The hills at the head of the bay are nearly 900 feet high, 

 and extend, within St. Peter point, southwestward to Chateau bay. 

 St. Peter point, the southwestern point of the bay, bears northwest- 

 ward, distant 2 miles from the southern St. Peter island. 



The depth in the entrance between St. Peter point and the inner 

 islet is about 6 fathoms. This entrance is f mile wide, but a shoal, 

 with 13 feet of water over it, lies nearly 400 yards southwestward 

 of the islet; and a reef extends eastward 335 yards from St. Peter 

 point. 



The channel between these shoals is about 800 yards wide; it is 

 approached from the southward, passing westward of all St. Peter 

 islands and giving them a berth of over ^ mile. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage at f mile from the head of the 

 bav, in 13 to 20 fathoms, sand; it is, however, very indifferent, al- 

 though it might be useful in necessity. Both wood and water can be 

 obtained. 



Sandwich point and cove lie about 2 miles southward of St. Peter 

 jDoint ; the cove is only available for boats. 



Bad bay, lying betAveen Sandwich point and Seal point, the north- 

 eastern entrance point of Chateau bay, situated about 2 miles south- 

 westward, is rocky and dangerous, and affords no shelter. 



Seal islands are four islets, from 9 to 33 feet high, lying close 

 around Seal point. 



Henney shoal, southeastward 750 yards from the western part of 

 the Avestern of the Seal islands, is about 350 yards in length, west- 

 w^ard and eastAvard, 300 yards in gi-eatest Avidth, within the depth of 

 10 fathoms., and has a least depth of 7 fathoms over it. 



The coast from Seal point trends irregularly Avestward for lyV 

 miles to Grenville point, and close off it, at about j% mile from Seal 

 point, is an islet 23 feet high. 



Henley island, close southward of this islet, is triangular in shape, 

 and each side has a length of about 1,200 yards; its southern point 

 rises steeply to the summit of the island, which is a remarkable 

 basaltic cap with vertical sides and a flat top, 196 feet high. Two 

 islets are joined by reefs to the middle of its southwestern side. 



