cox HEAD PENNY HARBOR. " 681 



Salt pond, northeastward If miles from Hill harbor, is a creek 

 extending northward 500 yards from the narrow entrance, with a 

 breadth of 65 yards. It is suitable for small vessels. The entrance 

 is clear, but the violent squalls and eddying winds that sweep down 

 from the surrounding hills should be prepared for. 



Cox head, northeastward 1,100 yards from Salt Pond entrance, is 

 the southern slope of a conspicuous dark wedge-shaped hill, the sum- 

 mit of which, 282 feet high, falls steeply eastward to the sea. 



Comfort head, the northern slope of the wedge-shaped hill, has 

 numerous rocks and shoals lying within a distance of 1^ miles oif it, 

 and this area after northeasterly gales appears a mass of breakers. 

 Black rock, the northeasternmost of this group of rocks, is 16 feet 

 high, and surrounded by banks, all of which break in heavy weather. 

 The positions of these rocks and shoals are marked on the chart. In 

 fine weather there is a good channel for moderate-sized vessels in- 

 side all. 



Rocks — Clearing- mark. — The summit of Hawke island over the 

 channel between Bear and Stag islands, bearing 205°, leads eastward 

 of the rocks and shoals lying off Cox and Comfort heads. 



Comfort bight is the deep inlet between Comfort head and 

 Partridge head, which bears 355°, distant 1:^ miles from it. The 

 bight contains a large bay, and two good harbors for small craft 

 sheltered by small islands, and much frequented by fishing vessels. 



Sprackling island, close northwestward of Comfort head, is 83 

 feet high, dark and conical, with two small islets westward of it, all 

 connected together and to the mainland by shoals and rocks. 



George harbor, south westward of the two small islets, is 600 yards 

 in extent and nearly 200 yards wide at the entrance, narrowing grad- 

 ually to the head. A rock with 6 feet of water over it lies just 

 within the western head in the line of the western points; otherwise 

 the harbor is clear except close to the shore. 



The harbor affords anchorage in 4 fathoms of water, mud bottom, 

 but a heavy sea rolls in with the autumnal northerly gales. 



Owl Head island is 194 feet high; its coasts are steep cliffs, except 

 the southwestern, from which it rises gradually. There is a flag- 

 staff on the island. 



Burke island, southwestward of Owl Head island, and separated 

 from the mainland on the southern side by a narrow channel suitable 

 for small craft only, is 112 feet high, and dark. 



Penny Harbor entrance, between Owl Head and Burke islands, 

 is 150 yards wide, and from it the harbor trends southward between 

 Burke island and the mainland westward of it, but, as there are 

 several rocks in this part, do not anchor southwestward of a small 

 black rock, just above high water, lying close under a conical hill 

 150 feet high on the northwestern shore. Harbor rock, that covers 



