662 EAST COAST OP LABKADOE. 



Salmon point, the northeastern end of the peninsula dividing 

 Little harbor from port Charlotte, is steej) and rises to a conical hill 

 157 feet high. 



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

 4m. ; springs rise 4r| feet. 



Port Charlotte extends soutliAvestward nearly 2 miles, and is en- 

 tered by a narrow, foul channel, which should not be attempted with- 

 out a pilot. It expands into a deep bay with good anchorage in 11 

 to 15 fathoms water. Road island, 17 feet high, lies in the entrance, 

 and is nearly joined to the western entrance point by rocks and shoal 

 water; a rock that covers lies off its southeastern side, and a reef 

 extends southwestward, 450 yards from its southern end, with Gull 

 rock lying midway between Road island and the end of the reef. 

 Shoals with depths of 3 fathoms over them lie southward 300 yards 

 from the southwestern end of the reef, and a rock, with 10 feet of 

 water over it, lies 100 yards off Level point, the first point within the 

 entrance on the southeastern shore. 



Bottom arm, at the head of port Charlotte, is ^ mile in length and 

 affords anchorage in 6^ fathoms of water, mud bottom, as far in as 

 the narrows, about 800 yards from the mouth of the arm. Shoal 

 water extends from either shore of the narrows, but 4 fathoms can 

 be carried in mid-channel to the inner basin, where there is completely 

 sheltered anchorage for small craft, with good holding ground, in 

 7 fathoms. 



Mecklenburg harbor, westward of Chapel island, has an outer 

 and inner anchorage, and is entered either northwestward or south- 

 ward of Chapel island; the eastern side of the promontory northwest- 

 ward of Chapel island, is indented by fissures 400 yards deep north- 

 ward to Crowby head, a distance of 750 yards. The outer harbor, 

 westward to Green island, is easy of access, clear of shoals, and 

 affords well-sheltered anchorage in 13 to 18 fathoms. 



The inner anchorage is southwestward of Green island, and a shoal 

 bank, with 3 feet least water over it, extends from the northern shore, 

 immediately within the island, half way across the entrance, and 

 rocks which cover lie off the northern shore at about 1,200 yards west- 

 southwestward of Green island. A bank, with 3 fathoms of water 

 over it, is situated 150 yards off the southern shore just within the 

 entrance. No natural marks clear these dangers, and the inner 

 anchorage should not be entered without a pilot. 



Water can be procured from a brook at the head of Man-of-war 

 cove, the arm northward of Green island. 



Double islands, northward distant about 1 mile from Fish island, 

 are two bare, gray rocks, divided by a shallow channel 50 yards wide ; 

 the higher of these islands is 65 feet high. 



