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REMARKS RESPECTING THE TIDES
Between Canton, Hongkong, and Macao.
In the absence of complete tide tables, the following table and remarks may be found serviceable.
PLACES.
Latitude North.
Longitude
Time of
Rise of
East of Griech. high water.
Tide.
hrs.
min.
feet.
Macao
Lankeet
Anunghoy
Second Bar Creek
li 30 22 41 30 22 43 15 22 58 30
113° 32/30
10
10
8
113 38 15
113 36 30
2
113 32 15
2
15
6 to 8
Whampoa
23 5 45
113 24 U
30
Canton
Lintin
Hongkong
23 7 0
113 15
0
3
50
4 to 5
22 21 30 22 21 0
113 48
0
12
0
IN
114 13
10
20
73
The flood tide, when regular (which is seldom), runs round Cabreta Point towards the town of Macas; but a little outside of the Point it sets along the land to the north, across the bay, until it meets the tide from Capsing-moon (of Kapshui-moon, “the swift water passage") above Lintin, when it flows in a direct channel towards the Bogue. The velocity of the flood tide in Macao Roads is about 2! miles in the north-east monsoon and moderate weather; but when it blows strong from the northward there is no apparent flood. The ebb then runs at the rate of 3 to 34 and 4 miles when the water is falling by the land. The ebb tide sets out from the town of Macao much in the same way as the flood comes in, with the difference of runding a little more to the westward along the shore, before it takes the sonhorly direction : the latter part of this file is the fore the best time for boats to start for Lintin or Caston, with a contrary wind, as they then gr out far enough to have all the flood to work to the northward with.
The tides at Lintin rua norch and south, or nearly so. The velocity of the cbb, in the north-east monsoon, when blowing strong, is much the same as in Macao Roads; but there is always a perecprible flood of 1 or 11⁄2 miles. During the height of the south- west monsoon, the ebb runs at times at the rate of 6 and 61⁄2 mies, after heavy rains; at that season the floods are very weak.
CHINESE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
MONTES.—Accounts are kept at Canto i in fuels, mace, eundtriaes, and cash; the tas being divided into 19 mare, 179 candariacs, or 1,000 cash. There is but one kind > money made in China, called cash, which is not coined, but cast, and which is only used for small payments; it is composed of six parts of copper and four of lead; it is round, marked on one side, and rather naised at the edges, with a square hole in the mille, These picces are commonly carried like beads, on a string of wire. A tack of of fine sver should be worth 1,000 cash: but, on account of their convenience for common use, their price is sometimes so much raised that only 750 cash are given for the tael,
Foreign coms, however, circulate here, particularly Spanish dollars; and for small change they are cut into very extet proportions, but afterwards weighed: for which pur-
The floorl ceases rising at this hour, but the stream in the middl! the river runs up a considerable time. longer.-Horsbury.
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