PABTKIDGE HEAD DUCK ISLANDS. 683 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Comfort bight at 

 7h. 3m.; springs rise 5^ feet, neaps 2f feet. 



Partridge head rises steeply to a remarkable tabe-topped hill, 551 

 feet high. The northern part of the head is a sharp conical hill, 

 406 feet high, separated from the main hill by a deep valley which 

 shows well from the southeastward. 



American cove, north-northwestward about 1 mile from the 

 southern end of Partridge head, is a narrow boat creek, with some 

 houses around its shores. 



Partridge bay, the entrance to which is northward about 600 

 yards from American cove, extends southwestward about 1^ miles, 

 and an arm runs northwestward 2^ miles from it. The survey of the 

 bay is old and incomplete. 



The northern entrance point of the bay is a low grassy hummock, 24 

 feet high, rising gradually to a high wooded- summit. A rock, with 

 7 feet of water over it, lies southwestward 100 3^ards from this point. 



Red island, north-northeastward ^ mile from the northern end of 

 Partridge head, and the westernmost of a group of islands covered 

 with grass over reddish rock, is small, 55 feet high, and bold-to on the 

 northwestern and southwestern sides. 



A low black islet lies close to its eastern end, and at 100 yards 

 farther northeastward is a similar islet, from which is a rock, with 8 

 feet of water over it, bearing 5°, distant 100 yards. 



The channel between these islets is deep, and ordinarily used by 

 the local fishing craft. Bobby rocks seen between the two black islets, 

 bearing about 166°, clears the 8-foot rock. 



Flat island, eastward ^ mile from Red island, is 65 feet high, and 

 a small round islet lies eastward a short distance from its southeastern 

 point. 



A shoal, with 4| fathoms of water over it, bears 180°, distant nearly 

 200 yards from the southern point of Flat island; and Flat Island 

 bank, with 6 feet of water over its shoalest part, northeastward 150 

 yards from the northern point. 



Flat Island rock, with 5 feet of water over it, bears 112°, distant I 

 mile from the southern point of Flat island and nearly in midchannel 

 between that island and Duck islands. 



Duck islands, eastward 600 yards from Flat island, consist of 

 three principal and several smaller islands and rocks, with no naviga- 

 ble passage between them, except with local knowledge. 



Duck island, the largest, has a round hill, 99 feet high, at its north- 

 eastern end ; the island rises in steep cliffs to the southeastward, and 

 form rugged points on the northwestern side. 



Little Duck island, the northeasternmost and darkest of the group, 

 is 51 feet high. A rock, awash at low water, lies southeastward nearly 

 200 yards from Little Duck island, and a shoal, with 7 feet of water 

 over it, southward 100 yards from the rock. 



