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TIDES BETWEEN CANTON, HONGKONG, AND MACAO.
XVI. The duties of pilots will be taken in turns among those qualified by the Harbour Master. On the 1st of cach month a distribution is to be made of the fees received.
XVII. A fall of the barometer, indicative of bad weather, will be announced by the firing of a gun and the hoisting of a white flag with a red square in the centre at the staff on the Cantou wharf. The flag will be replaced by two green lights, boisted perpendicularly, during the night.
XVIII-Shipmasters are specially recommended to see that a clear hawse is always kept, have their sheet anchors ready to let go, and take all other usual precau- tions to insure their vessels against bad weather. The signals made by the Harbour Master are merely precautionary and indicative of a coming storm, the force of which as well as its passage over this port can never be predicted.
XIX. All fishing and tanca boa's are to be registered at the Harbour Master'a Office and have their number and designation clearly affixed.
XX.--These Regulations shall be printed, and a copy given to captains of vessels coming to Macao.
Government Secretary's Office, Macao, 11th June, 1872.
(Signed) HENRIQUE DE CASTRO.
Secretary General.
REMARKS RESPECTING THE TIDES BETWEEN CANTON, HONGKONG, AND MACAO.
In the absence of a complete tide table, the following table and remarks may be found serviceable:-
PLACK!
Macao Lankeet Anungboy
10 1
...
Second Bar Creek
! Whampoa
Canton
LL
LATITEON NORTH,
L>JGITUDE HUIT OF Q='WIEM,
TINE OF HIGH WATEL.
YIRE OF TIDE.
Ara
feet.
22▪ 11/ 80//| 113* 32/30 || 10
10
8
22 41 30
22 48 15
113 38 16 113 36 30
2
0
+++
22 58 30 23 5 45
П
23 7 0
22 24 30
P
22 21 0
113 32 15 113 24 113 15 0 113 48 0 114 18 0 10 20
F
15
6 to 8
2
30
* 3
50
4 to 5
12
0
8
1
7}
Lintin Hongkong
The flood tide, when regular (which is seldom), runs round Cabreta Point towards the town of Macao; 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 (or Capshui-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 3 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 running a little more to the westward along the shore, before it takes the southerly direction; the latter part of this tide is therefore the best time for boats to start for Lintin or Canton, with a contrary wind, as they then get out far enough to have all the flood to work to the northward with.
The tides at Lintin run north and south, or nearly so. The velocity of the ebb, in the north-east monsoon when blowing strong is much the same as in Macao Roads; but there is always a perceptible flood of 1 or 1 miles. During the height of the south-west monsoon, the ebb runs at times at the rate of 6 and 61⁄2 miles, after heavy rains; at that season the floods are very weak,
• The food ceases rising at this hour, but the stream in ·ha muddle of the river ruse up a considérable time langer.
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