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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1881.

37

No. 18.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

號八十第報憲

The following Notice to Mariners is published

for general information.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

週

年

知

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

二十日示

Hongkong, 20th January, 1881.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

[No. 198.]

CHINA SEA.

CANTON RIVER AND DISTRICT.

Sunken Rocks.

The following Memorandum by Mr. PARKHILL is

published for general information:-

During the last few years several sunken rocks have

been discovered in those navigable channels of the Canton

River which are used by Foreign vessels. None of these rocks are marked on the Admiralty Charts, nor are they generally known to shipmasters frequenting this port.

The positions of the most dangerous rocks were ascer- tained and reported a few years ago, but, so far as I know,

no step has been taken officially to make them publicly

known.

So far as is at present known, they are:---

1. Three knolls of sandstone in the Eastern Passage

of the 2nd Bar, each having a surface of about

150 square feet, and about 4 feet above the bed

of the river, known respectively as→→

(4) Wang Lan (橫瀾), the southernmost of

the three, having a depth of 9 feet on it at low water spring tides, is situated 500 yards from the east bank of the river. From it 2nd Bar Pagoda bears

N. 66° 50 W., and the. See Cheetow

Pagoda S. 75° W.

(B) 150 yards N. 24° E. from the Wang Lan

is Tai Tub (大凸), the middle knoll

having a depth of 12 feet on it at low water. It is situated 405 yards from

the bank. When over it 2nd Bar Pagoda

bears N. 68° 44' W., and See Cheetow

Pagoda S. 74° 20' W.

(C) Tai Kweichan (大龜產), having a depth

of 11 feet over it at low water, is the

north knoll of the three, and is 207 yards N. 39°30' W. from Tai Tub, and 507 yards from the east bank. When over it the 2nd Bar Pagoda bears N. 71° 50′ W., and the See Cheetow Pagoda S. 70°W.

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