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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MAY, 1881.

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The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the

margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. and 313.

See Admiralty Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, pp. 312

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

(No. 31.)

CHINA-EAST COAST.

Sunken Dangers in Canton Ricer,

The Chinese Government has given Notice, dated 9th December, 1880, that during the last few years several sunken dangers have been discovered in the navigable channels of the Canton river used by shipping-the positions and descriptions of the most dangerous of them have been ascertained, and are as follows, viz:-

1. Three knolls composed of sandstone in the fairway of the Eastern passage of the Second bar, each having a surface

of about 17 square yards, and rising about 4 feet above the river bed, known respectively as-

A. Wang Lan, the southernmost of the three, has 9 feet over it at low water spring tides, and lies 500 yards from the east bank of the river, with Second Bar pagoda bearing N. 663° W., and See Cheetow pagoda, S. 75° W.

B. Tai Tub, the middle knoll, bears N. 24° E. distant 150 yards from Wang Lan, has 12 feet over it at low water, and lies 405 yards from the bank, with Second Bar pagoda bearing N. 683° W., and See Cheetow pagoda S. 744° W.

C. Tai Kweichan, the northern knoll, has 11 feet over it at low water, and lies 507 yards from the bank,

with Second Bar pagoda bearing N. 713° W., and See Cheetow pagoda S. 70° W.

2. About one mile above the Second bar, and nearly opposite Nimrod creek, is a rock locally known as Sai Sheklung; it is 150 feet in length (parallel with the bank), and 100 feet in width, with a least depth over it of 9 feet at low water spring tides, and lies 300 yards from the raised bank of Pottinger island, with Mammal hill bearing N. 694°W., Second Bar pagoda S. 414 W., and See Cheetow pagoda, S. 2610 W. Fishing stakes are placed on and beyond this rock from November to March yearly.

NOTE.-Mammal hill is in lat. 23° 3′ 5′′ N., long. 113° 27′ 20′′ E.; it is a smooth round hill with conical summit, and is easily distinguished from the south-eastward, being the centre one of three cone-shaped hills.

3. Another rock known as Tai Sheklung, bears N.W. W. distant about half a mile from Sai Sheklung and 575 yards from the East bank; it is about 150 feet in extent, with a least depth over it of 11 feet, and 4 to 6 fathoms close around, lying with High peak of Tiger island bearing S. 144° E., See Cheetow pagoda S. 22° W., and Second Bar pagoda S. 331 W.

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4. A rock of small extent, on which the steam vessel Sin Nanzing touched, having 10 feet over it at low water,

nearly in mid-channel of Collinson reach, with hill (50 feet) on Danes island bearing N. 5° E.; the westernmost high peak (290 feet) on Danes island, N. 48° W.; and Matheson point N. 55° E.

5. A pinnacle rock with 8 feet over it, lies about 2 cables N.W. of the north end of Pedder island, approach to

Whampoa channel; from it Whampoa pagoda bears N. 8430 W.

6. A rock of small extent, with 8 feet over it at low water, lies N. 68° W. distant 45 yards from the last mentioned rock; from it Whampoa pagoda bears N. 85° W., and the small pagoda on the east end of Whampoa island S. 13° W. 7. A rock (Powan) about 50 feet in extent, on which the steam vessel Powan ran in 1874, with a least depth over it of 5 feet, lies in the Whampoa channel, 183 yards from the north bank of the river, with the Joss house having a pagoda on the top bearing N. 83° W.; Inclined pagoda S. 82° W.; and Whampoa pagoda S. 344o E.

8. A rock about 20 feet surface with 7 feet over it at low water, lies W. S. distant three-quarters of a mile from Powan rock, and 155 yards from the south bank, with the Joss house having a pagoda on the top bearing N. 73° W.; Inclined pagoda S. 81° W.; and Whampoa pagoda S. 684° E.

9. A conical rock with 3 feet over it at low water, lies W. N. from the last mentioned rock and 187 yards from the south bank, with the little pagoda northward of Napier island bearing N. 78° W.; Inclined pågoda S. 781o W.; and Whampoa pagoda S. 71o E.

10. A reef projects 207 yards from the east side of the entrance to a small creek on the south bank of the river, about three-quarters of a mile above the fort on the east end of Napier island, with 5 feet over its outer edge, and less water inshore-from its outer edge, the little pagoda (northward of Napier island) bears N. 8° E.; and Inclined pagoda S. 82° E.

11. A rock with a least depth on it of 6 feet at low water, lies N. 45° E. distant 92 yards from Macao rock, and 73 yards from the high water mark at the rocky landing to the European cemetery, Macao reach-from it the west- ern extreme of Honan island bears N. 28° W., tower on Macao fort S. 27° W.; and Bushy hill (146 feet), south- ward of Hamilton creek, S. 40° E.

12. A rocky patch with 10 feet over it, lies 300 yards from the western end of the Shamien bund, in line with the

Joss house on the Fa-T (Fati) shore, and with Shamien church steeple bearing N. 544o E.

(The bearings are Magnetic. Variation Easterly in 1881.)

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By Command of their Lordships,

FREDK. J. EVANS,

Hydrographer.

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 5th March, 1881.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Canton river and western branches, No. 2502; Second Bar pagoda to Whampoa, No. 1742 Tiger island to Second Bar pagoda, No. 1740; Whampoa channel to Canton, No. 1739: Also, China Sea Directory, vol. III., 1874, pages 98-108.