706 EAST COAST OF LABEADOE. 



Large vessels anchor in 12 fathoms of water, with the northeastern 

 end of Long island in line •\vith the sonthwestern end of Curlew 

 island, bearing about 330°. Smaller vessels anchor, in 6 to 9 fathoms, 

 at about 200 yards off a steep bluff, 175 feet high, on the southern 

 shore, on either side of which is a long deep valley. 



Water can be obtained. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Curlew harbor at 

 6h. 40m. ; springs rise 5f feet, neaps 4^ feet. 



Green island, west-northwestward, f mile from Curlew island, is 

 1,300 yards long, eastward and westward, 700 yards wide, and 145 

 feet high. Pigeon island and a long ridge of rocks, awash at high 

 water, lie between Green and Round islands (p. 707), and close the 

 passage except to those with local knowledge. 



The southern shore of Curlew harbor continues west-northwest- 

 ward to Toomie point, which is distant 2 miles from Curlew island. 

 This is known as the Goat shore. 



Isthmus bay extends south-southwestward for If miles from 

 Toomie point, and it then turns southeastward for 2^ miles; the 

 shores are barren except at the head, where, northward of a hill 424 

 feet high, are swamps and lakes with small timber around them. 



Cartwright island. — Cartwright point, the northeastern point of 

 this island, lies northward, ^ mile from Toomie point, and the island 

 extends south-southwestward 1| miles, with a 'width of 700 yards. 

 Its summit is a square hummock 199 feet high. The island is on the 

 western side of the outer part of Isthmus bay and is separated by a 

 channel 700 yards wide, but narrowed to 400 yards by rocks, from 

 Toomie point, through which 4:^ fathoms is the deepest w^ater that 

 can be carried. Three rocks lie Avithin 400 yards south-southwest- 

 ward of the island. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage oft' the southeastern coast of 

 Cartwright island with good holding ground. A large vessel can 

 anchor anywhere inside Toomie point. 



Southeast cove, the entrance to which is between Toomie and 

 Hanrahan points, which lie nearly northward and southward from 

 each other and are 1,200 yards apart, extends 1 mile to the eastward. 

 The deepest water between the points is 7f fathoms, and the water 

 shoals gradually to the shore, but rapidly to 2 fathoms toward the 

 head. Vessels can anchor in the cove during summer, although the 

 holding ground is not very good. 



Indian head, southward, 265 yards from the rocks south-south- 

 westward of Cartwright island, rises in a grassy conical hill 127 feet 

 high, and is connected at low water with the peninsula southward 

 of it! 



A rock. Avith 12 feet water over it, bears 24°, distant 100 yards 

 from the northern end of Indian head, and a shingly spit, with 3 



