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Possession is a flat or shoal not shown in the charts and of considerable extent forming a serious danger.  Fire Id is nearly Pt Campbell and more southerly than on the chart and there is? no channel south of it between it and the foul ground.  The shoal in Turnagain Bay is more elongated than shown on the chart.  There is an islet near the point east of Pt Possession north of which anchorage may be had.  East of this the Bay is almost dry at low water.  Around the N. Foreland to the north and about two miles distant is Ladd's fishery & trading post.  Anchored here about 4 P.M. and landed.  The water has 3 1/2 fms half a mile off the beach at 3/4 flood.  Tides 25 to 35 ft.  The formation is gravel &