104
and the Barrack drain pipes and
that pun through it have
Aewers
given it
A
some what.
aspect at Law water Spring Tides.
The tidals currents both flow
and ebb are
close in shore
the Harbour
-der
Avery
do
naturally feebles
the Victoria sides of
as to be incapables. combination of wind and
tide of effecting sufficient scour along the
wall
dations. Owing
stuckness it
very precise. speeds.
4
or
to affect its foun.
to their extreme
impossible to give
definiter rates of
From the Harbour Mastéré
Department I learn officially that in the 5. W. Monsoon the floods
may the rate
be takiw
AJ
of
2. miles
in at
punning
an hour close
lo
to the wall, the ebb being somewhat In the three sets of
morch,
ments I have taken in the some 5.1.
monsoon I do not finds
velocitiz
A
per
quester. hour for
than 12 mile
wither tide. In the N.E. Monsoon
montron
it is less for the ebb and fully-
two miles.
for
the flood.
These
taker 200
200 feet
observations were
ont, beyond the counteracting in
fluence of
whee vis
fithiis .
Fides. In the harbour of Hong-
kong there wists the singular phe-
-nomenow of
sets
of
hão complete
distinct
tidal fluctuations, those of
the N. E. and 5" W. monsoons peas.
- pestively.
S.
The former represents
high
sea level and last
from
October
tu