TICKLE ISLAND COPPER ISLAND. 685 



The northern island is barren in patches and rises in two dark 

 conical hills, the northwestern of which is 157 feet high. 



A bay, situated westward of the northern of these islands, extends 

 ^ mile to the westward, narrowing graduallj^ to the head from a 

 width of 900 yards at the entrance, and affords good anchorage in 

 10 fathoms of water, mud bottom. 



A bank, about 200 yards across, with 6 feet of water over it, lies in 

 the middle of the bay, bearing 300°, distant ^ mile from the northern 

 point of the northern Gulnare island, and there is no passage for a 

 large vessel southwestward of it. A shoal, with 4^ fathoms of water 

 over it, bears 194°, distant 150 yards from the northeastern entrance 

 point. 



Tickle island, northward about 400 yards from the northern 

 Gulnare island and with its northern end joined to the mainland at 

 low water, rises to a dark hill, 66 feet high, near the northern end, 

 and steeply to a lower hill near the southeastern end. Between these 

 hills is a low marsh, joining the heads of two shallow coves that 

 enter each side. A rock, that covers, lies 100 yards otf the western 

 side, and a shoal lies a short distance off the southern point, but the 

 eastern side is steep-to. 



Frenchman run is the passage between Gulnare islands and the 

 mainland, on the northern and western sides, and Hare, Copper, and 

 the islands northward to Corbet island, on the southern and eastern 

 sides. This channel, much used in the early part of summer when 

 ice blocks the outer tracks, is well sheltered and contains several 

 anchorages. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Frenchman run at 

 7h. 13m. ; springs rise 5^ feet, neaps 3 feet. 



Frenchman harbor, the entrance to which is immediately north- 

 eastward of the northern end of Tickle island, extends 800 yards 

 northward, and is 400 yards wide at the entrance. It narrows grad- 

 ually to the head, and is clear of shoals except close to the shore. It 

 affords anchorage for small vessels in 6 to 12 fathoms of water. 



The coast of the mainland eastward of the harbor is fringed by 

 bowlders, and rises at 600 to 800 yards inland to a barren round hill 

 282 feet high. At about 1,200 yards from the harbor is a steep bluff, 

 rising to a peaked hill 188 feet high, and here the coast turns north- 

 ward. 



A rocky bank about 100 yards across, with 2 feet of water over it, 

 lies southeastward 300 yards from the bluff. 



Anchorage can be obtained, in 14 fathoms of water, between 

 Copper island and the mainland. 



Copper island. — The western end of Copper island lies about 200 

 yards eastward of Tickle island, and Copper island extends thence 

 east-southeastward for 1^ miles, with an average width of ^ mile; 



