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1575 55 STAT.] GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA-NAVAL AND AIR BASES-MAR. 27, 1941 thereof except for the purposes specified and on the terms and con- ditions contained in the aforesaid Notes and Agreement, which are incorporated in and form part of these presents except such parts thereof as refer specifically to territory other than Newfoundland. SCHEDULE. (1) Beginning at the intersection of the shoreline northwest of Placentia with latitude 47° 16' N., thence due east approximately 7,300 feet to longitude 53° 58' 18" W.; thence in a northeasterly direction approximately 8,200 feet to latitude 47° 17' 12" N., long- itude 53° 57' 25" W.; thence in a northwesterly direction approxi- mately 4,200 feet to the intersection of the shoreline with longitude 53° 57' 58" W.; thence along the shoreline to the point of beginning, including therein the Peninsula of Argentia lying between Little Placentia Harbour and Placentia Bay, the entire site containing ap- proximately 2,610 acres; there is reserved from the foregoing all those areas, contained within a right-of-way of the Newfoundland Railway, its wharf, property and station at Argentia, as may be mutually determined to be essential to the operation of the said railway. (2) Beginning at the intersection of The Boulevarde, along the northwest shore of Quidi Vidi Lake, with the road approximately perpendicular thereto at the Rose residence known as Grove Farm Road; thence approximately 600 yards northwest along the road and its extension; thence generally north on an irregular line along, but not including, the southeast edge of the golf course; thence generally north to the junction of the White Hills Roads; thence southeast along the northernmost of these roads to The Boulevarde; thence generally southwest to point of beginning. (3) An area about 300 feet wide on the eastern boundary of the municipal park between The Boulevarde and the shoreline of Quidi Vidi Lake, the two last above described areas containing approx- imately 160 acres. (4) An area of approximately 700 feet by 1,400 feet on the crest of the White Hills about % mile east of the White Hills Road with a connecting strip about 60 feet wide across the property of Arthur Cooke. (5) Beginning at a point on the shoreline of St. George's Bay eastward of the town of Stephenville and about 1,350 feet southeast of the small natural outlet of Blanche Brook, which outlet is about 16,000 feet northwest of Indian Head Light at the entrance of St. George's Harbour; thence north 50° 30' east a distance of about 1,285 feet to a point on the west shoreline of Stephenville Pond at its northwest outlet; thence following the general westerly shoreline of Stephenville Pond northeasterly to a point on said shoreline which bears north 25° 15' east and is approximately 3,700 feet from the last described point; thence north 7° 45' east a distance of 1,970 feet to a point; thence north 47° west a distance of 4,220 feet to a point; thence south 43° west a distance of about 6,850 feet to the shoreline of St. George's Bay (this course touches the shoreline of Blanche Brook at a point about 900 feet northeast from St. George's Bay);