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may be avoided by not opening the Babouslika with the cape 

 beyond, with a flag-staff upon it, or by keeping Stanitski 

 Point well open with the said signal bluff. In standing to- 

 wards this rock, take care the ebb tide in particular does not set 

 you upon it. A good working mark for all this western shore 

 is the Babouslika, open with Direction Muff, the last cape or 

 hill on the left iipoti the loiv land at the head of Awatska Bay. 

 The bay south of Stanitski Point is filled with rocks and foul 

 ground. The lighthouse reef is connected with the Brothers, 

 and the cape must not be approached in any part within half 

 a mile, nor the Brothers within a full cable's length. There 

 are no o-ood marks for the exact limit of this reef off the Bro- 

 thers, and consequently ships must estimate that short distance. 

 They must also here, and once for all, in beating through 

 this channel, allow for shooting in stays, and for the tides, 

 which, ebb and flood, sweep over toward these rocks, running 

 S.E. and N.E. They should also keep good way on the ves- 

 sel, as the eddy currents may otherwise prevent her coming 



about. 



To the northward of the Brothers, two-diirds of the way 

 between them and a ragged cape (Pinnacle Point) at the 

 south extreme of a large sandy bay (Ismenai Bay), there 

 are some rocks nearly awash ; and off Pinnacle Point, 

 (N.N.W. one mile and three quarters from th.e lighthouse) 

 there is a small reef, one of the outer rocks of which dries at 

 half tide. These dangers can almost always be seen : their 

 outer edoes lie nearly in a line, and they may be approached 

 within a cable's length. If they are not seen, do not shut in 

 the Rakovya signal bluff. Off Pinnacle Point the lead finds 

 deeper water than mid-channel, and very irregular soundings. 



To the northward of Stanitski Point the Baboushka may 

 be opened to the eastward a little, with the signal-siaff bluff', 

 but be careful of a shoal which extends about three cables' 

 leno-th south of the Baboushka. Baboushka has no danger to 

 the eastward at a greater distance than a cable's length, and 

 when it is passed there is nothing to apprehend on the western 

 shore, until N.N.W. of the signal-staff, off which there is a 



