FRYS COVE RED BAY. 645 



Frys cove, lying west-southwestward 3 miles from Barge point, is 

 a little narrow inlet which affords shelter for small craft. There are 

 two or three fishing huts near the head of the cove which show from 

 the southward. 



Black bay, 1 mile westward of Frys cove, is about 1 mile wide at 

 the entrance, narrows to the head, which is 1 mile westward of the 

 entrance. Small vessels cx^casionally anchor in the bay, but the bottom 

 is sand and not very good holding ground, and the bay is open to the 

 eastward. It affords a temporary summer anchorage for a steamer in 

 case of a sudden fog. Anchorage should be taken in not less than 12 

 fathoms, as the water shoals suddenly at the head of the bay and rocks 

 extend a considerable distance off' its southwestern side. There are no 

 inhabitants hereabouts. 



The coast of Labrador from Wiseman head, the southern point of 

 a small bay immediately southward of Black ba3% southwestward to 

 Pinware bay, is barren and made up of reddish granite rock and has 

 a few indentations and some offlying rocks. 



Gull island, southwestward about 1^ miles from Wiseman head 

 and ^ mile offshore, is small, '20 feet high, moss covered, and rocky. 



Thistle rock, with 3 feet of water OAer it, lies southwestward 

 nearly 1] miles from Gull island, and bears 98°, distant 1,200 yards 

 from the summit of the southern part of Twin island. When the sea 

 is smooth the rock does not show. 



Clearing" marks. — Wiseman head, open southeastward of Gull 

 island, bearing' 50°, leads southeastward, and Cox hill, in line with the 

 southern end of Twin island, bearing 289°, leads southward of Thistle 

 rock. 



Capstan Cove point is the end of a bare gray mound, 52 feet high, 

 lying westward about j% mile from Gull island, and it shelters Cap- 

 stan cove in easterlj^ winds. Capstan cove is much used for anchorage 

 by fishermen in the herring season. 



Twin island consists of tw^o hummocks, the northern being 40 feet 

 high and the southern 32 feet, joined together except at high water 

 springs. Several rocks extend westward from this island. 



There is no passage for any vessel drawing more than 6 feet of water 

 between Twin island and the mainland, nor between the eastern end of 

 Saddle island and the mainland. A bar, with 15 feet of water over 

 it, connects Twin and Saddle Island rocks. 



Red "bay is a good, though small, harbor formed by Saddle island 

 and a bay in the mainland ; and is divided into two parts, the north- 

 ern being the basin and the southern the harbor. The passage from 

 the harbor to the basin is 200 yards wide, with a depth of 7 fathoms 

 of water in the middle, between Penney island and the eastern shore. 



The eastern side of the harbor rises to a series of hillocks, 205 to 

 62 feet high, connected by marshes with ponds in them. The hills at 



