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大小 and Hwángkwa 黄瓜 are rather larger than it, and be- tween which there are no passages. Seaotán 、 island is 6 ca- bles long, and about 290 feet high, and has a sandy bay on its northern side; between it and Hwangkwa 'there is a safe chan- nel, which may sometimes be taken with advantage by ships; there- by enabling them to weather the Chauchat without tacking. Between Seaotán and Taetán there is also a safe channel Vessels cannot enter to the northward of Taetán, for between this island and Amoy there is only 11⁄2 fathoms. On both of these islands there are three chimneys. Taetán is eight cables long, with a sandy isthmus in the centre, and a village on its western shore; the eastern end is about 300 feet high.

From Chihseu (or Yi sii) to the outer harbor off Kúláng seu, the course is N. 38° W., 4 miles, with a depth varying from 7 to 12 fathoms. Between Tsing seu and 'l'aepan Pt. is a deep bay with many rocks and shoals in it, to avoid which vessels should keep Pagoda island or Kí seu

open of Taepan Point. Vessels entering Amoy from the northward, to clear the shoal which extends three miles due south, from the western pagoda on Quemoy, and dries at low water spring tides, must keep the southern extreme of Taetan open to the northward of Pagoda island. With these marks on, when the pagoda on Quemoy bears N.N.E., you are clear of the danger or a better mark is, (as Pagoda island may not be seen,) after passing Leeo-Loopoint, to steer to the southward until (Nántái Wúshán or) the high pagoda bears west, when you may steer west without fear until you make Wú-seu shin and the Chauchat. The south end of Amoy is a sandy point, with several rocks extend- ing two cables from the shore. Between this point and the next west of it there is a half tide rock, three cables from the shore. To avoid this, when standing into the coast, a cliff point with a battery, and three chimneys on it, (1.3 mile from the rock,) will be seen, and also a sandy point with a large stone at its southern extreme, 0.8 of a mile further to the northwest. Tack before these two points come in line with one another. From the south point to the remarkable stone on the beach, the three fathom line extends two cables from the shore. Thẹ channel between the island of Kúláng seu and Amoy is so nar- row that a stranger would not be justified in passing through it until he had anchored, and made himself acquainted with the marks A