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Crow island rocks are two shoals, with 11 feet of water over them, 

 lying eastward 300 yards from Crow island, and 135 yards apart, 

 northward and southward. 



Polio rock, lying TOO yards eastward of the middle of Long- 

 island, is round, black, and 9 feet high. 



Polio sunkers, south-southwestward 100 yards from Polio rock, 

 are always marked b}^ breakers. 



American island, westward of Long island, has some fiagstaffs 

 and several white houses on the shores of a cove on its eastern side; 

 this cove affords anchorage for small vessels in 3 fathoms of water, 

 sand bottom ; a shoal lies close off the northern point of the cove. A 

 rock lies a short distance westward of the southern point of the island, 

 and a rock, awash at low water, off the northwestern point. 



American tickle, the passage between Long and American 

 islands, is about 100 yards wide at its narrowest part and may be 

 taken by vessels drawing less than 18 feet of water by keeping close 

 to Long island. 



Seal island, north-northwestward of American island, is covered 

 with ranges of dark hills, the highest near the southern end being 

 135 feet high. On the northern hill is a flagstaff, 98 feet above high 

 water. 



Wireless telegraph. — There is a wireless telegraph station at 

 Seal island. 



Seal Island harbor, a bight in the southern coast of the island, 

 is only suitable for small vessels, which lie within a peninsula, con- 

 nected to the western side of the bight by a narrow isthmus. Rocks, 

 with 2 feet of water over them, lie off the northern point of the 

 peninsula, leaving a narrow passage on each side of the rocks, with a 

 depth of 15 feet in the southern, and 9 feet in the northern. A shallow 

 lagoon close within the head of the harbor enters the sea on the 

 western coast of the island. Several white houses, occupied by per- 

 manent settlers, surround this harbor. 



Hills harbor, on the eastern coast of Seal island at ^ mile from its 

 northern end and within one large and several smaller islands, is only 

 adapted for a few small vessels. The southern entrance is barred by 

 rocks, but the northern is clear. 



Gull island, 27 feet high, lies southeastward about 400 yards from 

 the southern entrance to the harbor. There is a small rock close to 

 its southeastern side. 



The Brandies, eastward, nearly 200 yards from Gull island, is a 

 rocky bank, 300 yards long, in a north-northwesterly and south- 

 southeasterly direction, with two heads, each with 7 feet of water 

 over it. A small rock bears 92°, distant 500 yards from Gull island, 

 and has 12 feet of water over it. 



