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long shoal, with only two and two and a half fathoms. The 

 water shoals gradually towards it, and the helm may safely be 

 put down in four fathoms and three quarters ; but a certain 

 guide is not to open the western tangent of Baboushka with 

 Stanitski Point south of it. There is no other danger on this 

 side of the entrance. 



When a cable's length north of Pinnacle Reef, you may 

 stretch into Ismenai Bay, guided by the soundings, which are 

 regular, taking care of a three-fathom knoll which lies half- 

 way between Pinnacle Point and the cape north of it. This 

 bay affords good anchorage, and it may be convenient to 

 anchor there for a tide. There is no other danger than the 

 above-mentioned knoll. The large square rock at the north- 

 ern part of this bay (Ismenai Rock) may be passed at a cable- 

 lenuth distance. This rock is connected with the land to the 

 northward by a reef, and in standing back toward it the Pin- 

 nacle Point must be kept open with the lighthouse. When in 

 one, there are but three fathoms and a half. Rakovya signal- 

 staff to the northward in one with the bluff south of it (which 

 has a large green bush over-hanging its brow), will place you 

 in five fathoms close to the rocks. 



Off the north bluff of Ismenai Bay there extends a small 

 reef to a full cable-length from the sliore ; until this is past do 

 not shut in Pinnacle Point with the lighthouse. But to the 

 northward of it you may tack within a cable-length of the 

 bluffs, extending that distance a little off the signal-staff bluff, 

 in consequence of some rocks which lie off there. 



Northward of Rakovya signal-staff the only danger is the 

 Rakovya shoal, upon the W. part of which there is a buoy in- 

 the summer, and to clear this keep the Brothers in sight. 



There is no good mark for determining when you are to 

 the northward of this shoal, and as the tides in their course up 

 Rakovya Harbour are apt to set you towards it, it is better to 

 keep the Brothers open until you are certain, by your dis- 

 tance, of having passed it; (its northern edge is seven-eighths 

 of a mile from Rakovya bluff) particularly as you may now 

 stretch to the westward as far as you please, and as there is 



