Tides. The flood in Gregerie Channel sets through to the eastward with a velocity of about 1/2 knot at springs; the ebb with the same velocity in the opposite direction.

DIRECTIONS.-To enter by East Gregerie Channel, when off the entrance steer a 332° true (ÑNW % W mag.) course keeping in midchannel. When Regis Point opens northward of Banana Point, steer 295° true (NW by W 3 W mag.) heading for the Nisky Moravian Mission buildings, with Cowell Battery nearly astern. When Kiaer Tower (Blackbeard Castle) begins to open northward of Careen Hill steer 239° true (SW by W 5% W mag.), heading for the eastern summit of Haypiece Hill, to an anchorage off Little Krum Bay.

To enter by the West Channel when off the entrance steer a 47° true (NE 12 E mag.) course until the southern tangent of Regis Point is on range with the highest part of Grambokola Hill and Providence Point is on range with the northern part of Drift Point. Bring the latter range astern on a 26° true (NNÊ 5% E mag.) course and continue it until Little Krum Bay opens out. Then head westnorthwestward and select anchorage off the mouth of the bay.

Krum Bay is an inlet lying between two high peninsulas at the western side of West Gregerie Channel. It is about 800 yards in length and 150 yards wide at its narrowest part, with a deep channel favoring the western side. This channel has an entrance depth of 7 fathoms, shoaling to 3 fathoms near the head of the bay. The entrance points are rocky, but the shore line at the northern part of the bay is a narrow strip of mangrove.

On the west shore, 300 yards from the head of the bay, is a cable station and wharf. On the shore opposite is an old wrecking station, and there are scattered along the shore the remains of old masts, rigging, etc.

Mosquito Bay, close westward of Krum Bay, is about 1/2 mile wide, between Mosquito Point and Red Point, 1/2 mile in length, and open to the southward. Mosquito Point is the southern end of the peninsula separating Krum Bay from Mosquito Bay. Grambokola Hill, 275 feet high, thickly wooded, and prominent, is the highest point on this peninsula. Off Red Point, the western en trance point, a rocky ledge extends 600 yards southward, ending in Red Point Shoal, which has a least depth of 4 feet and is steep-to. A detached rock, 25 feet high, lies close to the western shore, 400 yards north-northeastward from Red Point.

At the head of Mosquito Bay there is a fine interior to the northward is under cultivation. is in the northwest corner of the bay, and the U. buildings are just back of it.

sand beach and the A small boat pier S. Marine Barracks

At the entrance to the bay the depths are 5 fathoms, gradually decreasing toward the head of the bay. The bay is used only by small local boats.

Water Island Anchorage is an excellent anchorage westward of Water Island, for deep-draft vessels. To make this anchorage vessels can pass on either side of Porpoise Rocks and come to in 9 to 10 fathoms of water, with the southern extremity of Water Island bearing 140° true (SE 34 S mag.) and Careen Hill bearing 50° true (NE 34 E mag.).

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Westward of Water Island there is a group of islands and shoals forming the southern side of Southwest Road.

Porpoise Rocks lie 1 mile westward of Flamingo Point and 11⁄2 miles southward of Red Point. They consist of two reefs connected by a shallow ledge, there being two distant breaks. The eastern reef is the larger and is about 200 yards wide. The highest rock of this reef bares 3 feet, with smaller rocks that bare or are awash. The smaller reef is about 30 yards in extent, with a rock which bares 2 feet. There is 6 to 10 fathoms of water in the channel between Porpoise Rocks and Water Island.

Flat Cays lie 8 mile northeastward from Saba Island and 14 miles south-southwestward from Red Point. They consist of two small islets, 32 feet and 11 feet high, respectively. The larger one is partly covered with underbrush, while the other is bare. About 300 yards eastward of Big Flat Cay is a rock awash, surrounded by a breaking reef.

Saba Island, 202 feet high and triangular in shape, lies 1 mile southwestward of Big Flat Cay. The northern part of the island is low. The southern part is high, with precipitous red cliffs 150 feet high along the south shore. The highest part of the island is near the western end, where it rises to almost a point. There are two small lagoons surrounded by mangroves near the north end. A landing can be made on the sand beach along the northwest shore. About 150 yards east of the island is a reef consisting of a bare rock 5 feet high, with numerous rocks awash over which the sea always breaks. Another reef awash lies 100 yards southward of the western end of the island.

Turtledove Cay, 50 feet high, 100 yards northward of Saba Island, is small, covered with tall grass, and connected with the latter by a reef bare at extreme low water. About 200 yards westward of the cay there is a cluster of rocks awash. There is a boat channel between these rocks and the cay.

Dry Rock, lying about 2 mile southwestward of Saba Island, is a group of bare rocks and rocks awash, with the highest rock baring 2 feet.

Southwest Road, between Flat Cays and Perseverance Bay, affords an excellent anchorage with the wind as far southward as east-southeast. A four-fathom spot lies 1,000 yards southwestward of Red Point.

DIRECTIONS.-Steamers may anchor as convenient after entering through any of the channels between the islands and shoals southward. Sailing vessels should enter from the eastward between Water Island and Porpoise Rocks, favoring Water Island, and pass between Flat Cays and Red Point Shoal; to avoid the latter keep Flag Hill (hill 980 feet high, east of St. Thomas Harbor) open southward of Mosquito Point until the southeastern points of Big Flat Cay and Turtledove Cay are in line. Then haul to the northward and anchor as convenient.

From Red Point the coast trends northwestward for 1 mile to Black Point. Range Cay, an islet 21 feet high, lies close to the shore 1/2 mile from Red Point. Brewers Bay is a slight indentation between Range Cay and Black Point. The shore line in the bay is a fine sand beach. Black Point, 70 feet high, is a projecting point terminating in rocky cliffs 40 to 50 feet high.

Perseverance Bay, between Black Point and Lucas Point to the westward, has depths of 13 fathoms 800 yards from the shore. At the head of the bay, back of the sand beach, is a salt marsh. Coral reefs, bare at low water, fringe the beach. From the sand beach facing the marsh to Lucas Point the shore is generally rocky with cliffs 60 to 70 feet high.

Fortuna Bay, between Lucas Point and David Point, consists of two small bays separated from each other by a broad point. This point is high and faced by precipitous cliffs 200 feet high.

Between David Point and the western end of St. Thomas the shore line is bold, with rocky cliffs 50 to 200 feet high. A rock, 5 feet high, lies close to the shore midway between David Point and Little St. Thomas.

ST. JOHN ISLAND.

St. John Island is 8 miles long, east and west, but of varying width. Its eastern end, for the distance of 3 miles, is formed by a narrow neck of land from 1 mile to less than 1/2 mile across; and from its inner end the coast turns sharply to the southward, forming a deep bight, which terminates at Ram Head, forming the southern point of the island; thence across to Mary Point, on the northern side, the island is 5 miles wide. The central and western portions are composed of irregular hills, the highest of which, Bordeaux Mountain, reaches the height of 1,277 feet. For the most part the hills and mountains are covered with trees and brush, with some patches of grass, which are used for cattle grazing.

The principal and practically only industry is the growing of the bay leaves and the distillation of the bay oil from which bay rum is obtained. There is some little cultivation of lime trees, and sugar cane is grown at Reef Bay. The island is best adapted to cattle raising.

Interior communication is difficult, as only "horse trails" connect the different parts of the island. Communication between St. John and St. Thomas is by small sailing vessels.

The population of St. John is 959.

NORTH COAST OF ST. JOHN.

Durloe Cays are three islets westward of Hognest Point, the northwest point of St. John. Henley Cay, the largest, is 70 feet high, 300 yards east and west, of regular outline and covered with grass. Ramgoat Cay, 310 yards northeast of Henley, is 30 feet high, while Rata Cay, the smallest, and lying 400 yards west-northwestward of Henley Cay, is 15 feet high.

Hognest Point, a projecting point which forms the western shore of Hognest Bay, is wooded, and in the northern part there is a circular hill 130 feet high, with a low divide just southward. Off the extreme point is a bare rock 25 feet high. Hognest Bay, eastward of the point, is a small bay of no commercial importance. Off the southern shore of the bay are numerous rocks.

Perkins Cay is an islet close to the eastern point of Hognest Bay. Just eastward of this cay is Denis Bay, a small bight, almost filled by coral reefs, through which a boat channel makes into the beach. There are some houses at the head of the bay. Trunk Cay, a grass

covered islet, 48 feet high, lies in Trunk Bay, the small bight eastward of Denis and Jumbie bays.

Johnson Reef, of coral formation, 1⁄2 mile northward of Trunk Bay, is 1/4 mile in length, 200 yards wide, and always breaks. A sunken ledge connects this reef with the mainland to the southeast. There are depths of 311⁄2 fathoms 200 yards northward of it, 3 fathoms about the same distance east and west and deeper water beyond.

Francis Bay, southward of Mary Point, is somewhat protected to the northward by Whistling Cay, and affords good anchorage in 9 fathoms, sandy bottom. Between Whistling Cay and the shore southwestward is a bank 800 yards in length and 250 yards in width, fronting the bay, with 32 to 4 fathoms of water on it.

Cinnamon Cay, 32 feet high and covered with tall grass and cactus, lies near the middle of Cinnamon Bay, a shoal bight south of Francis Bay. America Point, back of which rises America Hill, a prominent elevation 526 feet high, separates Cinnamon Bay from Maho Bay, the head of which is shoal and has a fine sand beach.

Whistling Cay, 202 feet high, and separated from Mary Point by Fungi Passage, is covered with trees. Its north shore is precipitous, with cliffs 130 feet high. There is a gravel beach along the southeast side. Gravel beds are worked by natives who come from St. Thomas in sailboats. Some goats are raised on the cay.

Fungi Passage has a charted depth of 24 fathoms, but on account of the baffling winds from the adjacent high land, it is not easily navigated by sailing vessels.

Mary Point is a remarkable headland shaped in the form of a ridge, 1 mile east and west and 578 feet high. This ridge is connected with St. John by a low divide, separating Francis Bay from Smith Bay. The north shore of Mary Point from Fungi Passage eastward to Firewood Beach consists of high weather-beaten cliffs, with large boulders along the water line. Firewood Beach is of gravel and sand fringed by coral reefs.

Eastward of Mary Point peninsula there is an indentation about 34 mile in length and 1/4 mile in depth. Smith Bay, the western part of this bight, makes well in behind the high land northward. It is shoal and the shore is fringed with mangrove swamps. Leinster Bay, the eastern part, is partially protected by Watermelon Cay, 30 feet high, lying 250 yards westward of Leinster Point. The cay is bold and is separated from St. John by a channel, 200 yards wide, carrying 2 fathoms of water. Vessels may anchor under the cay about 200 yards from the shore. A reform school for boys is located near the head of Leinster Bay. Annaberg Point, 96 feet high, eastward of Leinster Bay, is faced by a conspicuous landslide.

Threadneedle Point, 1/2 mile eastward of Leinster Point, is precipitous, with cliffs up to 70 feet high. From Threadneedle Point the coast trends in a general east-southeasterly direction for 311⁄2 miles to Eastend, the eastern point of St. John. Brown Bay, Mennebeck Bay, Haulover Bay, and Newfound Bay are small bights along this coast, which can be used for anchorage only when the wind is right. Haulover Bay probably makes the best anchorage.

The Narrows and waters separating St. John from the British Virgin Islands are described on page 145.

SOUTH COAST OF ST. JOHN ISLAND.

Privateer Point, a projecting point 164 feet high, separates Eastend Bay from Privateer Bay, two small bights open to the southeastward and forming the southeastern extremity of St. John. Red Point, a remarkable headland westward of Privateer Bay, is the southern end of a high ridge, and is the eastern entrance point to Coral Bay.

Flanagan Island, 127 feet high, lies 3/4 mile southeast of l'rivateer Point, and may be passed on either side.

Coral Bay is the large bay extending northward into St. John between Red Point and Ram Head. The eastern side is formed by a lofty promontory, which terminates at Red Point. The bay is open to the southeastward, the narrowest part of the entrance, between Moor Point and Lagoon Point, being 14 miles wide. Inside the bay the shore is indented by three smaller bays, Round Bay, Hurricane Hole, and Coral Harbor. Buck Island, 85 feet high, nearly 600 yards long and 100 yards wide, lies in the entrance to Coral Bay, midway between Red Point and Ram Head.

Channels. The entrance to Coral Bay, between Buck Island and Sabbat Point, is 700 yards wide and about 10 fathoms deep. The wider channel, between Buck Island and Moor Point, is 11 to 14 fathoms deep, with two coral patches with depths of 6 and 8 fathoms, respectively.

There are no towns in Coral Bay. The population of about 482 live in rural communities scattered in various localities around the bay. Eastend is a small settlement on Hanson Bay; the chief occupation of the people is the building of small boats and sloops. At Emmaus, on Coral Harbor, there is a Moravian Mission and school, and there is a group of prominent buildings north of Long Point in Hurricane Hole.

Round Bay, the northeastern of the three arms of Coral Bay, is % mile wide at the entrance, between Moor Point and Turner Point. There are several shoal patches of 32 fathoms or more which should be avoided in entering.

Pelican Rock, 7 feet high, lies 100 yards off the southern entrance point of Hanson Bay. The Blinders, a group of rocks awash at low tide, project 220 yards southward from the western point of the Haulover.

The best anchorage in Round Bay is 600 yards from Moor Point with the point bearing 115° true (SE by E 3% E mag.), in 13 fathoms. Should the wind come to the southward of east, a vessel anchored here should be ready to move.

Hurricane Hole, the northern arm of Coral Bay, is 5% mile wide at the entrance westward of Turner Point. The shore line is indented by several small bays that afford protection from almost any direction for small vessels. Nathaniel Bay is the first bight northward of Turner Point. Water Creek, northward of Nathaniel Bay, affords good protection for small vessels. The creek was used by the Danes as an anchorage for some of their smaller cruisers, the vessels being moored to guns planted on the shore.

Otter Creek, Princess Bay, and Borck Creek are small bights in Hurricane Hole, any of which may be used as an anchorage.