660 EAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Spear harbor at 7h. 

 12m. ; springs rise 4| feet, neaps 3^ feet. 



Barren bay, or Salmon bight, an open bay with a little shoal water 

 at its head, extends northwestward 1^ miles from between Xorthern 

 head and Salmon Bight point, which lies 1,600 yards to the northward. 



Between Salmon Bight point amd the southern entrance point to 

 Spear Harbor bay, distant 1,200 yards to the northward, are Paul 

 Peters cove and Little Spear harbor, both open and Avild. 



Spear harbor, at the head of Spear Harbor bay, is entered between 

 two islands, but local knowledge is necessary for the pilotage. North 

 island, the larger of the islands, is 50 feet high, steep-to on the south- 

 ern side, shoal on the northern, and having a ledge projecting 50 feet 

 from its western end. West island is 52 feet high, and a reef 

 stretches 50 yards from the northwestern end. 



Ice. — The indraft occasionally carries icebergs into the entrance 

 of this harbor, so as to block it completely until a westerly wind 

 drives them out. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Petty harbor at 7h. 

 22m. ; springs rise 4^ feet, neaps 3 feet. 



Spear point, north-northeastward, distant 700 yards from the 

 southwestern point of Spear Harbor bay, rises to the height of 190 

 feet ; close off the point is a rock that covers. 



Tinker bank, bearing 330°, distant ^ mile from Spear point, has 

 4 fathoms of water over it. The summit of Jack Fling island, open 

 northward of American island, bearing 287^, leads northward 200 

 yards from this shoal. 



American island, northwestward f mile from Spear point, is 67 

 feet high; it is separated from the coast by a channel a little more 

 than 200 yards wide, in which is a rock with 10 feet of water over it, 

 situated rather nearer the island than the mainland. 



Jack Fling island, northwestward 600 yards from American 

 island, is a conical, gray island. 99 feet high, and is in two portions 

 that are nearly joined; a low, black rock lies off the southwestern end. 



Fish island lies 800 yards northwestward of Jack Fling island, 

 and between it and the land to the southwestward are Herringnet and 

 High islands. 



Sealing" big-ht is a bay open northward, the entrance of which lies 

 betAveen Fish and Jack Fling islands. There are some white houses 

 in the southeastern cove at its head ; the water is deep, and in north- 

 erly gales a heavy sea prevents it being used as an anchorage. 



Mad Moll, a rock with 6 feet of water over it, lies in the middle of 

 the entrance, bearing 285°, distant 400 yards from the western point 

 of Jack Fling island. Fling bank, bearing 21°, distant about 300 

 yards from the same point of Jack Fling island, has a depth of 6 

 fathoms over it. 



