654 SOUTHEAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



Woody island (ile an Bois) is 167 feet high, flat at the top, and 

 generally covered with moss and coarse grass. Penneys Room is a 

 large fishing establishment at the northwestern end of the island, and 

 there are several other houses on its northeastern side. 



Shoal water extends 300 yards from the northeastern coast of 

 Woody island and the Breakers, ledges of rocks that dry at low water, 

 extend | mile off the southern end of the western coast, but there is 

 deep water at 200 yards distant from the southeastern coast and from 

 the northwestern point. AMien the boats can not land on the north- 

 eastern side of the island, they do so at the Cow House, a small square 

 rock by the side of a small but deep creek on the western coast, close 

 southward of the northwestern end of the island. 



Greenly island (ile Yerte), westward lyV miles from Woody 

 island, consists of two hillocks joined by a plateau between two coves; 

 the northwestern hillock is 84 feet high and the southern 63 feet. 

 The northwestern coast is bold, but off the southeastern coast are a 

 rock, drying at low water, and shoals, which together extend south- 

 eastward ^ mile. A large fishing establishment, owned by Job 

 Brothers & Co., is situated in the northeastern cove. Greenly island 

 is the resort of puffins, which appear in great numbers suddenly in 

 June, and disappear as suddenly in October. 



Light. — A white octagonal tower with a red lantern, 86 feet high, 

 on the southern slope of the southern hillock of Greenly island, 

 exhibits, at 116 feet above high water, a flashing white light, showing 

 thus : Flash, one-quarter of a second ; eclipse, two and a quarter sec- 

 onds, that should be seen from a distance of 16 miles in clear weather. 



The keeper's dwelling is attached to the lighthouse and is painted 

 white, with a red roof. 



Fog" signal. — A diaphone horn, situated in a rectangular white 

 building with a red roof located 232 yards southeastward of Greenly 

 Island lighthouse and 20 yards from the sea, sounds blasts of five 

 seconds' duration, with intervals of fifty-five seconds between them, 

 during thick or ioggy weather. The horn is operated by compressed 

 air. 



Directions. — Approaching Blanc Sablon from the eastward, keep 

 at least ^ mile off the land till near point St. Charles. Pass south- 

 ward and westward of Blandford shoals with the fall of the cliff 

 over Anse Eclair point open southward of the southern extreme of 

 point St. Charles until the northern fall of the cliffs on the eastern 

 side of Blanc Sablon river is just open westward of the western 

 wharf of Jobs Room, bearing 344°. Keep the last mark on until 

 about 200 yards northward of the following mark, the southeastern 

 fall of the northwestern hillock of Greenlv island in line with the 



