648 SOUTHEAST COAST OP LABRADOR. 



the summit of Penney island 33° 55' W., by the officers of H. M. S. 

 Eambler in 1897. 



Tides and tidal streams.— It is high water, full and change, in 

 Red bay at 8h. 38m. ; springs rise 4 feet, neaps 2| feet ; neaps range 

 1^ feet. The flood stream sets westward through the northeastern 

 channel, and through the Harbor into the Basin; the ebb sets in the 

 contrary directions, but the streams are generally weak unless in- 

 fluenced by strong winds. 



Supplies — Small quantities of salt beef and flour might be ob- 

 tained at Red bay. 



Water can be taken, at high water, from the streams at the head of 

 the Basin or of Western arm. Small quantities may be procured in 

 smooth water from the stream under the cascade. 



Ice. — The Basin freezes over about the end of Xovember and the 

 Harbor about the middle of December, and both remain frozen till 

 the middle or end of May. Field ice remains till the middle or end 

 of June, and icebergs may always be met with. Small bergs fre- 

 quently drift into Western arm and occasionally into the Harbor. 



Cominunication. — The weekly coasting steamer from Bay of 

 Islands calls at Red bay during summer and autumn. 



Red bay is connected with the Canadian system of telegraph lines. 

 The telegi'aph office is near the western shore of the Basin. 



The coast southwestward of West point is foul and should not be 

 approached within ^ mile. Teapot rock, with 45 fatlroms of water 

 over it, lies 400 yards from the shore at 1^ miles southwestward of 

 West point. 



Carrol cove, southwestward about 2£ miles from West point, is 

 about 300 yards wide at its entrance and extends I mile to the south- 

 westward. One or two fishing vessels occasionally moor to the rocks 

 in it, and there are huts and fishing stages on the shore. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, at Carrol cove, at 

 8h. -!0m. ; springs rise 4^ feet, neaps 2 feet ; neaps range 1 foot. 



Little St. Modeste islands, two in number, are small, low, and 

 bare. Nelly island, the eastern of these islands, lies 4f miles south- 

 westward of Carrol cove, and Lily island is 1 mile farther westAvard; 

 both are close to the mainland northeastward of Pinw^are bay, but 

 they afford no shelter to shipping. Lily island has some houses and 

 a flagstaff on it. 



Soldier rock, bearing 127°, distant i mile from the eastern end of 

 Lily island, is awash at low water; this rock is in the approach to 

 Pinware bay from the eastward. 



The Bank is some rocky ground, GOO yards in length northeastward 

 and southwestward, lying with its outer extreme bearing 195°, distant 

 1^ miles from Lily island. The least water found was 6 fathoms 



