DEAD ISLANDS. . 671 



Red Island cove is situated southwestward 450 yards from Red 

 island, which bears west-northwestward, 1| miles from Sugarloaf 

 hill; the cove affords indifferent shelter for boats, as a considerable 

 swell sets- in after easterly winds. 



Schooner cove, southwestward 700 yards from Red island, is clear 

 of shoals and affords anchorage for two or three small craft, off a 

 cove with a shingle beach on the southeastern shore. 



Woody cove, westward 1 mile from Red island, is about 250 yards 

 square, and open to northeasterly winds, but affords good anchorage 

 in 6^ fathoms of water during westerly winds. 



Dead islands, separated by a clear channel 1 mile wide from the 

 northern side of Square island, are a group covering an area about 

 2 miles square ; there are two large and several smaller islands, inclos- 

 ing between them a good anchorage. 



West island, the largest, is If miles long, eastward and westward, 

 f mile broad, and 247 feet high. The southern coast is cliffy and 

 steep-to, and the northwestern coast is separated by a narrow channel 

 from a group of islands. An islet, 16 feet high, lies in this channel, 

 northwestward 100 yards from which is a shoal with 13 feet of water 

 over it. 



In taking this passage keep in mid-channel when entering, and pass 

 close northwestward of the islet, steering for the northwestern end of 

 Dead islands. 



A cove, having an extent of 600 yards, with a breadth of 300 yards, 

 is situated on the eastern side of West island, and affords good 

 anchorage for small vessels in 3^ fathoms of water, sand bottom, 

 though the shores are fringed by rocks that cover at high water. 



Bull island, the southeastern of the Dead islands, is 127 feet high 

 and has a conspicuous quartz vein on its seaward side ; it well marks 

 the entrance to Dead Islands harbor. 



Butler island, connected by rocks and shoal water to the western 

 side of Bull island, is 98 feet high. 



Harbor island, northwestward 250 yards from Bull island, is 100 

 feet high. 



Dead Islands harbor may be entered by the channels on either 

 side of Harbor island ; the latter one is between it and Bull island. 



Harbor rock, awash at high water and always showing, lies just 

 inside the entrance. It is skirted by shoal water, and a rock, over 

 which is a depth of 7 feet of water, lies southwestward 65 yards 

 from it. 



, Anchorage may be obtained in 10 to 12 fathoms of water as con- 

 venient, but icebergs drift in continuously during the early part of 

 summer. Large vessels, by not proceeding so far as to bring Stowe 

 Tickle point, which is northeastward of the cove, to bear 231°, will 

 clear a shoal lying off some rocks that cover 2 feet at high water and 

 extend 300 yards from that point. 



