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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1880.
Tides.-The rise and fall observed from 5th to 12th July (full moon on 14th) was 2 fect.
of habitation.
Excepting a few scrub bushes there is no vegetation. No water can be obtained at Dumeigh; nor are there any signs The nearest village is 6 miles distant, and contained about 40 people, who were unwilling to part with provisions of any kind.
ELIZA REEF.—A recf on which the British steam-ship Arethusa stranded in 1879), is reported, on the authority of Lloyd's agent at Jiddal, to lie N. by E. 6 miles distant from Abú Farámish.*
The position given is near the north entrance to the channel between Eliza shoals and the mainland, anil about 16 miles to the northward of Jiddah.
JIDDAH.-Erg-el-Allem reef has 9 feet least water, the shoalest part—a pinnacle-being near the north-east ́end. The reef is said to be growing and extending in a northerly direction.‡
Buoys.-The only buoy in the harbour in position (March 1880) was the red buoy off the south end of Burri reef; the others have either been washed away or removed. The tanks marking the boat passage from the inner anchorage to the town have been washed away.
The beacons in this harbour are easily distinguishable 3 miles distant; to a stranger they appear like boats under sail.į MARINE SURVEY Department, CALCUTTA, 12th July 1880.
* See British Admiralty chart, Red Sea, sheet No. 3, No. 8e. Also Red Sea pilot, pages 156 and f57.
See British Admiralty chart, Jiddali, with its approaches, No. 2599: scale m-3 inches. graphic notice No. 32 of 1878, page 7; also Marine Survey Department Hydrographic notice No: 12 (1878), page 6.
Also Red Sea pilot, rages 161–154, and Hydro- Mr. C. C. Thomson, Master, British steam ship Patna, 1879. Lieutenant J. Cuddy, H.M,S. Eclipse, 1880.
No. 223.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners is published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th September, 1880.
Government of India.
MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 9.)
RED SEA-GULF OF SUEZ.
Suez Bay-Lights at Port Ibraham.
Information has been received that the undermentioned lights are now exhibited at port Ibraham, Suez bay
1. Two floating lights are placed 897 yards seaward of the entrance of the harbour-green on the northern side of the
channel, red on the southern side."
2. A fixed green light is shown from the extremity of the north mole head; a fixed red light from the extremity of the
south mole head.
3. A fixed white light is shown from the extreme (western) end of the inner pier of the harbour. NOTE.--The foregoing green and red lights mark the channel into the port.
Entering port Ibraham, the green lights are left on the port hand, the red lights on the starboard hand, the
vessel being steered for the white light on the inner pier.
4. Also, that it is intended, when the state of the sea prevents the exhibition of the floating lights, to show two lights, green and red placed vertically, from the eastern commencement of the inner pier. These lights kept in line with the white light at the extreme (or western) end of the pier will then indicate the channel.
Buoyage.
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Also, that a buoy has been placed on each side of the channel to port Ibraham, 568 yards from the mole heads-the northern buoy in a line with the green lights, the southern buoy in a line with the red lights.
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEy Department, CALCUTTA, 7th August, 1880.
This Notice affects the following:-BRITISH ADMIRALTY Charts, Nos. 2523, 8, 757, 233 and 734. British Admiralty Sailing Directions, Red Sea Pilot, 1873, pages 23 and 36. "British Admiralty Light Lists for 1880. INDIAN MARINE SURVEY Light List for 1880; also, Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 27.
If this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions
to which it relates.
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