700 EAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



is narrow and requires local knowledge for its pilotage. Breakers 

 extend nearly 400 yards from the northwestern point of Indian island 

 on the northwestern side of the bay. 



Warren cove, in the northwestern side of Indian island, is a well- 

 slieltered ancliorage for fishing boats, and the small islands in the 

 ticlvle afford excellent places for fishing stages and curing fish, being 

 sheltered from winds and sea. 



Water is abundant and the watering place is convenient for boats, 

 but the wood on the mainland is scanty. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Indian tickle at 6h. 

 37m.: springs rise 6 feet, neaps 4 feet. 



Conimunica.tion. — The Labrador steamer to and from St. Johns 

 via Battle harbor calls at Indian tickle fortnightly during summer. 



Wliite point is the point of Musgrave land at the northwestern 

 end of the tickle. It lies westward, distant ly-^ miles from Indian 

 head, and shoals lie about 350 yards off the coast northeastward and 

 eastward of it. 



Light. — A white square tower with sloping sides 29 feet high, on 

 White point, exhibits at 72 feet above high water an intermittent 

 white light every ten seconds, thus: light, seven seconds; eclipse, 

 three seconds, which should be seen from a distance of 12 miles 

 in clear weather. The light is exhibited during the season of 

 navigation. 



A flat-roofed, one-story dwelling and a store stand on the north- 

 ern side of the lighthouse. The dwelling and store are painted 

 white. 



Ferret islands, east-northeastward 2 miles from Indian island, 

 are three small islands about 180 feet high, connected by shoal 

 water, and having three islets | mile eastward of them. 



A small rock, which covers 3 feet, bears 184°, distant 700 yards 

 from the western point of these islands. 



The coast from White point trends west-northwestward for 2 miles 

 to Red island, which is separated from the mainland by a channel 

 nearly 100 yards wide, and passable by boats except within an hour 

 of low water. 



A rock, with 5 feet of water over it, bears 120°, distant 1,400 yards 

 from the eastern end of Red island. 



Cape Greep, west -northwestward, 3^ miles from Red island, rises 

 in a conical mound, 177 feet high. The bay between Red island and 

 cape Greep is foul and shoal. 



Black rocks are three in number; two, the highest of which is 37 

 feet high, lie close together, and the third, about 20 feet high, bears 

 165°, distant 1,600 yards from them; the northern rocks bear 350°, 

 distant 2| miles from "VMiite point. 



