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northwestern end of Woody island, bearing 230^^, and anchor in 7 

 to 10 fathoms of water, sand bottom. This position is the best in the 

 bay for large vessels, but small craft can go in to any convenient 

 depth. Greenly Island lighthouse in line with the northwestern end 

 of Woody island, bearing 219°, leads just southeastward of the shoal 

 water at the head of the bay and the rocks extending from the 

 Barachois. 



Proceeding westward, round the northern end of Woody island 

 at the distance of about ^ mile till the fall of the hill over point 

 St. Charles is in line with the northern end of Woody island, bearing 

 67°, and keep that mark on till northward of the northern point of 

 Greenly island, to clear the bank between that island and the main- 

 land, or proceed to the southward in mid-channel between Woody 

 and Greenly islands. 



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

 Blanc Sablon at lOh. 32m. ; springs rise 5 feet, neaps 2f feet, and neaps 

 range 1^ feet. The flood stream usually sets westward through the 

 anchorage and the channel between the islands and the mainland at 

 an average rate of 1^ knots, and the ebb stream sets in the opposite 

 direction, but with wind prevailing from one direction the stream 

 going with the wind sometimes attains a rate of 2^ knots. With 

 opposing wind and stream a very heavy sea is raised in the channel 

 between the islands and the mainland, and occasionally boats are 

 swamped there. It is particularly bad at the northwestern end of 

 Woody island, where the tidal stream that passes between the islands 

 meets the one that passes northward of them. 



Fisheries. — There are about 200 residents in Blanc Sablon and 

 the neighborhood. They hunt for seals in May and June and other 

 fur-bearing animals during the winter. About 500 fishermen from 

 the east coast of Newfoundland arrive in the spring and engage with 

 the residents in the cod fishery. The catch in 1890 was about 20,000 

 quintals, and at that time 500 seals were killed annually. 



Ice. — Blanc Sablon freezes over about the middle of December and 

 the ice breaks up about the middle of May. The first steamers arrive 

 about the end of May and the last vessel leaves about October 20. 

 Northern ice usually arrives from December 26 to January 20. Field 

 ice makes during the winter, but finally leaves about the middle of 

 June. Icebergs may be met with at any time, but only a few reach as 

 far westward as Greenly island. 



Supplies. — A small stock of coal is kept by Messrs. Job Brothers 

 & Co., of which it is possible that about 50 tons could be supplied to 

 a vessel requiring it; the same firm can also usually supply ship's 

 stores, such as flour, salt, and beef. Water can be taken, at high water, 

 from Blanc Sablon river. 



