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A. weeds, and is sufficiently protected from easterly winds by 
Sect. VI. g^EAKSEA and Michaelmas Islands. The anchorage 
S, Coast, between Seal Island and the first sandy beach to the 
westward of Bald Head, with the low flat rocky islet 
bearing west, in six or seven fathoms sand and weeds, should 
be preferred during the summer months ; for the easterly 
winds then prevail, and sometimes blow strong, even as late 
as March ; the anchorage is landlocked, excepting in the 
direction of E.b.N., the only quarter to which it is ex- 
posed, and even in that direction the angle subtending the 
sea horizon is not greater than ten degrees of the circle, 
which is of insignificant consequence. 
There is no water nearer to this anchorage than in the sandy 
bay above mentioned, but the distance is trifling for a ship 
that can send boats with men enough to protect themselves 
while employed in filling the casks, for notwithstanding the 
friendly communication we have had with the inhabitants of 
this sound, they are not to be trusted, unless their character is 
different from the rest of their countrymen that we have seen. 
Water is procured at Princess Royal and Oyster Har- 
bours by digging holes at the edge of the sand under the 
hills; but, at the latter place, the stream that we used out- 
side the bar affords plenty, of excellent quality, without the 
trouble of digging. 
Over the bar of Oyster Harbour there is not more than ten 
and a half feet at low water, and in the neaps twelve feet at 
high water; but it is likely that, at spring-tides, there may 
be fourteen feet, or perhaps more if the wind is blowing into 
the harbour ; but during the springs high water always takes 
place at night, and it would not, therefore, be prudent to at- 
tempt to pass the bar at that time. 
A vessel intending to go to Oyster Harbour should anchor 
off the sandy beach immediately to the eastward of the en- 
