720 EAST COAST OF LABRADOR. 



situated southward of its northeastern point, is filled with bowlders 

 to the line of the points, but temporary anchorage can be obtained off 

 the entrance in 10 fathoms of water, mud bottom. The southeastern 

 coast of the island is foul and should not be approached within ^ 

 mile. 



Run by Guess, the channel separating Run by Guess and Ice 

 Tickle islands, is the best passage through this group of islands, being 

 ^ mile wide at its narrowest part and almost clear, so that sailing 

 vessels have no difficult}^ in beating through. There is excellent an- 

 chorage between Run by (^uess island and the mainland in depths of 

 14 to 17 fathoms. 



A small islet, 17 feet high, with a black rock off its eastern end, 

 bears 37°, distant 1,400 ^^ards from the northwestern end of Run by 

 Guess island, and a shoal, with 10 feet of water over it, bears 287°, 

 distant 600 yards from the islet. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, in Run by Guess, at 

 7h. 5m. ; springs rise 5f feet. 



Ice Tickle island, rises to the height of 320 feet on the southern 

 side, and to two peaked hills with cliff fronts, 307 and 303 feet high, 

 on the western side. Pinch-Gut islet, 101 feet high, is nearly joined 

 to the northwestern point. 



Ice tickle, between Ice Tickle island and Rodney Mundy island, 

 is so named on account of the ice remaining there longer than in any 

 other place in the locality. The anchorage in the tickle, in o to 7 

 fathoms of water, eastward of Boxer island, is secure and convenient 

 for vessels proceeding northward. A cove on the eastern side forms 

 a convenient harbor for fishing vessels and for curing fish. 



The southern entrance is clear at 200 yards off Ice Tickle island, but 

 the northern entrance, between the northeastern end of Ice Tickle 

 island and Marks island, has several rocks, sunken and awash, in it. 

 In July, 300 vessels, on their way northward to fish, have been at 

 anchor in Ice tickle at one time. 



Tides.— It is high water, full and change, in Ice tickle at 6h. 20m. ; 

 springs rise 7 feet, neaps 4 feet. 



Black rocks, southward 1,300 yards from the southern point of 

 Ice Tickle island, are steep-to. The best fishing ground is off these 

 rocks in 14 fathoms of water. 



Rodney Mundy island, on the eastern side of Ice tickle, is of 

 very irregular shape, about 2 miles long, northward and southward, 

 and 300 feet high. 



Edwards harbor, on the western side of Rodne}'^ Mundy island, 

 and southeastward of Ice tickle, is only suitable for small vessels, 

 and a sunken rock lies in the entrance. There is good salmon fish- 

 ing with nets in Salmon bight, to the southeastward of p]dwards 

 harbor, during- May and June. 



