GEORGE ISLAND HAMILTON INLET. 715 



Tub harbor, westward of Tub island and between it and some 

 islets and the mainland, aifords good anchorage in 5 to 8 fathoms of 

 water, sand bottom, and is much frequented by fishermen. 



Drakes island, eastward 1,200 yards from Tub island, is 27 feet 

 high; Bakers ledge extends northeastward 600 yards from it; the 

 highest rock of the ledge is 8 feet high. 



Mad Moll, a shoal of tAvo rocks, 100 yards apart, that cover 5 feet 

 at high water, bears 89°, distant 1.600 yards from Drakes island; a 

 shoal, with 4 fathoms of water over it, bears 91°, distant 2^^ miles, 

 and a rock, Avith 15 feet of water over it, bears 96°, distant 3y% miles 

 from Drakes island. 



George island, the southern end of which bears northeastward, 

 distant 4y^o miles from Tub island, is in two parts ; the southern part, 

 750 feet high, trends northwestward 2| miles to a low neck, whence 

 the northern part, 720 feet high, trends northeastward for the same 

 distance; the width of the southern part is nearly a mile, and that 

 of the northern 1.200 yards. The coasts of the island are steep-to 

 at the distance of 600 yards. The cove on the eastern side is 1,300 

 yards wide at the entrance and 1 mile deep, open eastward, narrows 

 gradually, and affords anchorage in 6 to 8 fathoms of water, sand 

 bottom, sheltered except from easterly winds between the directions 

 northeastward and south-southeastward. The southwestern shore of 

 the cove is clear, but shoals extend 600 yards from the northwestern 

 shore. Gull island, close southward of the northern entrance point, 

 is 49 feet high, and an islet, 23 feet high, lies 200 yards southward 

 of it; a rock, with 7 feet of water over it, lies close eastward of this 

 islet. 



Round Head island is a small truncated cone, 180 feet high, nearly 

 joined to the southwestern point of the entrance to the cove, and fish- 

 ing boats shelter westward of it. 



Rock. — Bearing 139°, distant 1^^ miles from the northeastern point 

 of George island, is a rock with less than 6 feet of water over it. 



Norman reef, bearing 86°, distant 3iV miles from the southeastern 

 point of George island, has 1 foot of water over it, and is the summit 

 of a rocky bank extending eastward nearly 5 miles from the southern 

 part of George island. Bearing 136°, distant 1^ miles from Norman 

 reef, there is a shoal with 6^ fathoms of water over it. 



Black rocks lie southwestward about 1^ miles from George island, 

 and the channel between is said to be clear, but the channels between 

 these rocks and the Duck islands and the mainland must not be at- 

 tempted Avithout a pilot. 



Hamilton inlet (Ivucktoke or Grosse Water bay) is entered be- 

 tAveen Tub island and Pompey island, which are 15 miles apart in a 

 northerly and southerly direction. It extends west-southwestward 35 

 miles to the Narrows, the intervening space containing several islands. 



