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mouth of the river
leading to Chingpo. Any
miscalculation of the strength of the tide
or
any mismanagement of the sails if working
in or out with
endanger vessels,
any
but
a
fair wind, will be the rock buoyed or not.
It has however been buoyed,
and three
lights have been placed in such
a
way
to make the approach to the entrance of in the extreme. In the harbor
the river
easy
the anchoring of ships is attended to by the
Surveyor (one of the customs
Tide
who performs
employee's
Foochow
The formation of the land is such that
the White Logs
once made no
difficulty can
be
experienced in finding the mouth of the
river.
There
is
a
bar to be
crossed
with the aid of the pilots who are
on
the look out, it is
but
always
passed in safely and
without difficulty. At the Pagoda anchorage
where some
dangerous spots
are
buoyed, the
Side Surveyor
Harbor Master attends to
the anchoring of ships. It is probable that
some
of the duties of
a
Harbour Master, and at Chinhae a couple
of Customs officers
are stationed, whose
duty it is to keep the passage through
light will be placed
Amoy
on
the White
Logs.
The harbor of Amoy though
small is
on the Coast, but at the
one
of the finest
the channel
from being
overcrowded
by
many
sunken rocks,
and beacons have
the Chinese junks that anchor there.
same time, it has
on all of which buoys