PINWAKE BAY ANSE A LOUP. 649 



on the extremes. Several other shoals with 6 to 9 fathoms over them 

 lie between the Bank and the northern side of Pinware bay. 



Pinware bay is 3^ miles wide across the mouth from Lily island to 

 St. Modeste island, and extends about 2 miles to the northwestward. 

 The bay affords anchorage in 16 fathoms of water, sandy bottom, 

 and although it is open to southeasterly winds it may be considered 

 tolerably safe during summer. 



Pinware river is at the head of the bay, and a sandy beach west- 

 ward of it forms a spit on which there is a cojispicuous house and 

 flagstaff. 



There is a shifting bar at the entrance to Pinware river, and vessels 

 should not anchor very near it, as the water shoals suddenly. 

 The best anchorage is in 16 fathoms, with the eastern point of Ship 

 head, a conspicuous rocky peninsula in the northwestern part of the 

 baj^, bearing 243°, distant 800 yards, and a noticeable house on the 

 sandpit bearing 6°. 



In 1904 the pinnace of H. B. M. S. " Charybdis '' entered Pinware 

 river and found a depth of 8 feet for the first mile or so; then the 

 water shoaled and became rapid. The telegraph wire crosses the 

 entrance to the river, and the vessel's mast had to be lowered to pass 

 it. The river abounds in salmon and is netted. A pilot, capable of 

 piloting a vessel of 8 feet draft into the river, lives at Ship head. 



Rock. — A rocky patch, with a least depth of 2 fathoms over it, 

 bears 178°, distant 800 yards from the eastern point of Ship head. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, at Pinware bay at about 

 9h. 10m. : springs rise 4 feet, neaps 2f feet. 



St. Modeste island is a small bare islet, 15 feet high, close to the 

 western entrance point to Pinware baj'^ ; on it are several houses, and 

 in the channel between it and the mainland fishing vessels moor to 

 the rocks. This is known as the Tickle, and there is a large settle- 

 ment on its shores. 



Cape Diable, southward about f mile from St. Modeste island, is a 

 black, bold, cliffy promontory rising to a flat-topped hill, 740 feet 

 high. 



The coast northward of cape Diable is granite and southwestward 

 of the cape, sandstone. The granite, however, shows occasionalh^ at 

 the water's edge under the sandstone at various points farther south- 

 westward. 



Diable bay, a small open bay southwestward about 2^ miles from 

 cape Diable, affords no anchorage ; there is a small village at its head. 



The coast between Diable bay and anse a Loup, about 3 miles to 

 the southwestward, consists of cliffs of red sandstone about 350 feet 

 high. 



Anse a Loup. — This bay is about lj\ miles wide and extends l^^ 

 miles northwestward between high table-lands of sandstone, covered 



