BLANC SABLON GULCH COVE. 653 



The coast westAvard of St. Clair bay is composed of cliffs faced by 

 large slabs of rock. Within the cliff's the surface features are gen- 

 erally flat-topped hills rising gradually to higher ranges inland. 



Blanc Sablon (formerly anse Sablon), westward about 1^ miles 

 from St. Clair bay, is partly sheltered by Woody and Greenly islands, 

 but southerly winds send in a heavy sea. Generally it is a safe 

 anchorage during summer, when fishing vessels moor there. 



The hills fall in cliff's on the northeastern side of the bay from 

 heights of 402 to 253 feet, and on the northwestern side from a flat- 

 topped hill 342 feet high that extends southwestward in a spur and 

 terminates in a sharp bluff' 167 feet high over Long point. There 

 is a curious saddle-shaped hill 440 feet high- at If miles northward 

 of the head of the bay. The shores generally are of rock faced by 

 bowlders, but at the head there is a sandy beach on the western 

 side of a projecting point 21 feet high on which are the conspicuous 

 white houses and wharves of the establishment of Job Brothers & 

 Co. (locally known as Jobs Room). Blanc Sablon river separates 

 the point from the sandy beach and drains a long valley and some 

 large ponds. The hills on the northeastern side fall in cliffs to the 

 marshes in the valley, but the rise is gradual on the west. 



Blandford shoals, on which the depths vary from 15 feet to 5 

 fathoms, are about 800 yards in extent and in the middle of Blanc 

 Sablon. A rock, with 1 foot of water over it, lies 235 yards from the 

 shore at ^ mile northwestAvard of point St. Charles, the eastern 

 entrance point, and a cluster of rocks extends I mile southward 

 from the Barachois, a small cove northeastward of Jobs Room. The 

 entire northern part of the bay is shallow, with a rock awash at low 

 water, 300 yards off' shore. 



The coast from Lazy point, the western entrance point of the bay 

 to Long point for 1:^ miles westward, is bordered by rocks and shoals, 

 and must not be approached within a distance of 800 yards. 



Bank. — A bank with a least depth of 4 fathoms over it and about 

 300 yards in extent within depths of 5 fathoms, bears 198°, distant ^ 

 mile from Lazy point. 



Gulch cove, a creek between two granitic spurs, is situated west- 

 ward f mile from Lazy point, and is frequented by fishermen during 

 summer. It is a dangerous place to approach, being surrounded by 

 rocks and so narrow that vessels are hauled in stern first, and moored 

 by chains to the rocks on each side. Losses, however, are not of fre- 

 quent occurrence. 



Long point, the nortliAvestern entrance point of the strait of Belle- 

 isle, has reefs and shoals extending nearly 800 yards southward 

 from it. 



Perroquet bank, with 4:^ fathoms over it, bears 248°, distant 1^ 

 miles from Long point. 



