Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... the channel between Jacques and Passage islands opens and proceed as directed in Chapter VII. Muskosh Channel is the passage leading from Gull Rock to Muskoka Mills, a distance of 3J (4) miles, and if a vessel picks the best route not less than 5 fathoms will be passed over. Buller Island, about 75 yards in diameter and 19 feet high, is NE. 200 yards from the NE. end of McLeod Island. It is wooded, and, standing out as it does, shows up conspicuously when rounding McLeod Island. Buller Island is the SE. entrance to a bay that runs in NW. J W. f mile. This bay has a nearly uniform width of 200 yards and limited but good anchorage in from 4 to 7 fathoms. From the north end of the bay a boat channel runs to Muskoka Landing. Buller Island has deep water close up to it on the east and north sides. Manitou Point is a rather high and nearly bare, flat point lying jusit north of McLeod Island. It forms the SW. shore of the bay. It is also the SE. end of a long island, the other end of which is known as Wabend Point. Beacon.--On the west shore of Wabend Point is a beacon painted white, which taken in conjunction with a similar beacon on a rock on the west side of Ava Island leads out from the Whalesback to Giants Tomb Island over not less than 16 feet. Portage Point is the narrow SE. end of Portage Island, forming the NE. shore of the anchorage. It lies N. E. 600 yards from the NE. end of McLeod Island. The long, narrow point trends NW. J W. J mile, when it joins the main part of the island, which lies nearly north and south, and is a mile in extreme length by J mile in extreme breadth. Good water runs in quite close to Portage Point on the east, SE., south, and SW. sides. A Shoal, with 13 feet least water on it, bears ESE. 600 yards from the...