728 EAST COAST OF LABEADOR. 



the picturesque shapes they assume when seen farther southward at 

 a later date. 



Some navigators have considered that the great number of ice- 

 bergs, instead of being an annoyance, are of mucii assistance. 

 Usually it can be seen if the bergs are aground, and shoal water 

 is often indicated by several small bergs being close together with 

 detached pieces of ice floating away to leeward. 



The coast from Little Holton trends northwestward to the eastern 

 point of Byron bay, a distance of about 10 miles; it is fringed with 

 rocks, and should not be apj^roached wnthin 2 miles. 



Tinker island, northwestward, 6 miles from Holton island, is 

 rugged, clitfy, and 201 feet high. Numerous islets and rocks extend 

 southwestward from it to the mainland. 



Quaker hat, situated northeastward '^f^ miles from Tinker island, 

 is 125 feet high, and Quaker reef, situated east-northeastward, dis- 

 tant 2:1 miles from Tinker island, is 20 feet high. The channels on 

 either side of the reef are clear, but that southwestward of it is 

 generally used. 



Ship Harbor head, on the northwestern side of Byron bay, situ- 

 ated 13 miles westward from Tinker island, rises in a conical hill to 

 the height of about 500 feet, and shelters Ship harbor from the 

 southward. 



False cape, northward about G miles from Ship Harbor head, is 

 the end of a saddle-shaped hill 900 feet high; a deep bay extends 

 southward betAveen False cape and cape Harrison, which is situated 

 north-northwestward distant G miles. There is a low islet, that is 

 steep-to to seaward, off False cape. 



Bear island, southeastward, distant 2:1 miles from cape Harrison, 

 is about 150 feet high, reddish and steep-to on the northeastern side. 



Cape Harrison (Uivaluk of the Eskimo) is a bluff rising to the 

 height of 1,065 feet, fringed by steep reddish cliffs, and conspicuous. 



Webeck harbor, whose name is a corruption of Uivuk, a cape, lies 

 between Webeck island, on the northwestern side, and the mainland 

 of cape Harrison, on the southeastern side, and has been for some 

 years a great rendezvous for fishermen. Morison island lies in the 

 northeastern entrance and shelters the harbor from the northeast- 

 ward. The harbor is 1^ miles in length, 1,200 to 450 yards in width, 

 and affords safe anchorage for vessels of large size, but is too exposed 

 for fishing vessels. There are no fishing stages, though the fishing 

 grounds around the island, and under the cliffs of the mainland in 14 

 fathoms of water, are good. 



Webeck island, about 280 feet high, with a few hills on its north- 

 western part, is flat and interspersed with lakes in the middle. The 

 formation of the island is chiefly of gneiss, though veins of quartz 



