FORTEAU BAY. 651 



Marine signal station. — There is a signal, telegraph, and wire- 

 less telegraph station at Amour Point lighthouse, and it is included 

 in Lloyd's system of reporting stations. This is also an ice-report 

 station. See pages 42, 66. 



A blue light burning at this station indicates to a vessel firing dis- 

 tinguishing rockets that her signals are recognized and will be re- 

 ported. 



Forteau bay is 4 miles wide between Amour point, on the eastern 

 side, and Forteau point, on the western side of the bay; it is said to 

 be the best roadstead in the strait of Belleisle. The holding ground 

 is good, and fishing vessels moor in it through the summer; but a 

 heavy swell rolls in with southerly winds. 



Anse aux Morts, immediately northwestward of Amour point, is 

 an open bight with deep water close to the southeastern shore, but 

 the northern side is foul for a short distance, and the water shoals 

 rapidly to the head. The bight affords anchorage, sheltered from 

 easterly winds only, in 10 to 6 fathoms, but in large vessels do not 

 bring the large house on the eastern shore to bear southward of 102°, 

 and anchor about 400 yards from the wharf. 



On both sides of Forteau bay the land rises in terraces to hills about 

 590 feet high. Forteau point slopes upward to a hill 212 feet high at 

 800 yards inland, and thence the land rises gradually in long slopes, 

 but faced by cliffs on the seaward side with an occasional deep gorge. 

 Crow head, 240 feet high, on the northwestern side of anse aux Morts, 

 and Chimney head, 144 feet high, on the western side of Forteau bay, 

 are conspicuous lines of cliff. Overfall brook flows into the sea, just 

 southward of Chimney head, from a height of 118 feet, with volume 

 of water varying with the season and at times very small. A church 

 with a spire, and several houses near it, stands close northeastward of 

 English point, a small hillock 25 feet high in the northern part of 

 the bay. From this point northwestward the water is shoal, and an 

 inlet that nearly dries extends to the mouth of Forteau brook, by 

 which the water from several lakes floAvs into the sea. Boats can 

 reach the mouth of the brook at half tide, but care must be taken to 

 avoid the numerous bowlders. Between the first and second lake is a 

 waterfall that is occasionally visible from seaward. 



The head of Forteau bay is a sand}' beach, behind which are sev- 

 eral houses.and the school, a plain building painted white. The prin- 

 cipal settlement is farther to the southward. Jobs Room, the south- 

 ernmost cluster of conspicuous buildings, is situated immediately 

 westward of the Flats, a flat ledge of rock that just covers at high 

 water, and affords shelter to the boats. The post-office in summer is 

 the northern house of this settlement. 



