MURRAY HARBOR LITTLE HARBOR. 661 



The Scab, a rock with 9 feet of water over it, is at the end of the 

 foul ground extending in a direction 285° for 300 yards from the 

 western point of Fish island. 



Murray harbor, westward 700 yards from High island, is an inlet 

 extending 900 yards to the southward and having a width of 300 

 yards, with good anchorage in 4 to 5 fathoms water, gradually shoal- 

 ing to the shores. Near the head, at 600 yards within the entrance, is 

 an islet, southward of which the water is shoal. 



The entrance is divided into two channels by Harbor island, which 

 is about 100 feet high. The western passage is shoal. 



A rock, with 1 foot of water over it, lies southward 100 yards from 

 Harbor island, and is steep-to on the northeastern side. To enter the 

 harbor, keep the eastern entrance point close aboard, and anchor in 

 mid-channel, off the houses. 



Salt Pond head, westward 335 yards from the northwestern point 

 of Harbor island, is the northern point of the promontory dividing 

 Murray harbor from Sophia harbor; it is bold and steep-to. 



Soldier shoal, bearing 35-1°, distant 700 yards from Salt Pond 

 head, has 15 feet of water over it and is the shoalest part of a bank 

 extending northward and southward 600 yards, with general depths 

 of 4f to 9 fathoms of water over it ; its northern end falls suddenly 

 to 19 fathoms. 



Sophia harbor entrance is southwestward about 800 yards from 

 Salt Pond head, and the harbor extends thence southward 1^ miles; 

 it then turns suddenly eastward and expands into Salt pond, a shal- 

 low basin nearly 1 mile long and ^ mile wide. There are no shoals 

 in mid-channel, and small vessels obtain good sheltered anchorage at 

 the head, but it is not suitable for large vessels. 



Mosquito cove, a deep open cove, westward of Sophia harbor, is 

 divided into two parts by Aaron island, 59 feet high. 



Chapel island, west-northwestward ^ mile from Salt Pond head, 

 is in two portions ; the northeastern is a cliff-faced islet, 60 feet high, 

 and the southwestern, green and sloping, 112 feet high. Fishing 

 boats shelter in the channel between these portions. 



Chapel Island rock, situated between the eastern points of the 

 two portions of Chapel island, generally breaks. 



Little harbor, northwestward about 700 yards from Mosquito 

 cove, affords snug shelter for small vessels, but the entrance is only 

 100 yards wide, and the channel is further narrowed by shoal water 

 off the southern shore. The harbor is a basin, 600 yards long and 

 200 yards wide, with a depth of 2^ fathoms, mud bottom. There is 

 good holding ground as far in as an islet 5 feet high. A depth of 2J 

 fathoms can be carried in by keeping the northern shore close aboard. 



The Wall, a shoal with 3^ fathoms of water over it and 7 fathoms 

 close-to, bears 84°, distant nearly 800 yards from the northern en- 

 trance point to Little harbor. 



