CAPE BLUFF SNUG HAEBOE, 673 



Harbor islets, a small group, the highest of which is 56 feet high, 

 lie in the middle of the harbor at 1,350 yards from the entrance ; foul 

 ground extends northwestward a short distance from them, falling 

 suddenly to deep water. A rock, with 10 feet of water over it, lies 

 eastward 65 yards from the islets, and a shoal, on which the depth is 

 15 feet, lies in mid-channel between these islets and the southwestern 

 shore of the harbor. 



There is anchorage for large vessels in 16 to 20 fathoms of water, 

 northwestward of Harbor islets, which is reached by the eastern chan- 

 nel, keeping nearer the mainland than the islets. 



Cape Bluff, a prominent headland situated northward, distant 9 

 miles from Main cape of cape St. Michael, rises steeply to a double- 

 peaked hill 719 and 695 feet high, ending in steep cliffs. The south- 

 ern end of the cape is a small rocky peninsula 110 feet high, that 

 shelters an open cove 300 yards in extent. 



The coast from cape Bluff trends northward 3^ miles to Southern 

 head. 



Gull island, northward If miles from cape Bluff', is 70 feet high, 

 white in color, and shows well against the dark cliffs of the mainland. 

 A rock, that covers 3 feet at high water, lies 100 yards southeastward 

 of Gull island, and there is shoal water for a short distance southeast- 

 ward of it. 



Shoals. — Gull rock, with 7 feet water over it, bears 99°, distant 

 1,250 yards, and Matthews bank, with 3 fathoms of water over it, 

 bears 127°, distant 1 mile from Gull island; these are small pinnacles 

 with deep water around. 



Long Point bank, with 10 fathoms of water over it, bears 48°, dis- 

 tant f mile; Small Skelligs, with 8 fathoms of water over it, bears 

 40°, distant l-f^ miles; and Large Skelligs, with 7 fathoms of water 

 over it, bears 34°, distant 1^ miles, respectively, from the summit of 

 Gull island ; all these banks break in heavy weather. 



Snug" harbor, entered westward of Murray point, the end of a 

 small conical hill 78 feet high and situated northwestward 1 mile 

 from Southern head, affords only indifferent anchorage, the water 

 being 24 fathoms deep in the wide part of the harbor and shoaling 

 only near the rocks. The entrance is 250 yards wide, inside which the 

 harbor expands into a basin 600 yards across, from the southeastern 

 end of which an arm, 250 yards broad, extends 900 yards. The south- 

 western side of the basin is encumbered with islets and shoals, the 

 latter extending in a bar from the first point on the western shore 

 within the entrance to the southwestern islet, and rendering that por- 

 tion of the harbor unfit for anchorage. Icebergs frequently drift in. 

 A rock, with 12 feet of water over it, lies southwestward nearly 100 



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