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The situation of these shoals will be more clearly pointed out by the chart, than by any description; the channel lies nearly EbS & Wb[?] but from the extent of the port and the want of striking objects, it was impossible to fix upon any leading marks, upon which sufficient dependence could be placed to conduct a ship by. The mark for entering the channel from the Westward, is Whale head open a ships lenght with the eastern point of the harbors mouth; when this head is sunk from the Deck, the channel becomes narrow & shoal; the edges of the Banks are however distinguished by the white water. In the narrows which are not more than a quarter of a Mile broad there is only 4½ fathoms, and the channel is not there discernable; it is therefore necessary to buoy it. To haul up for the run round the spit of the Island shoal, shut in the bluff of Point B with the fall of the high land of the Northern tongue, or bring the Northern (low) point of the Northern tongue to bear NNEbS.
To haul round the spit of the South shoal for, Sullivan bay, bring the yellow bluff to the eastward
of