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Q. Are you pretty well acquainted with it? A. I know all the 

 outlying dangers. 



Q. Do you know the place spoken of as Gull Ledge? A. I 

 know where it is situated. 



Q. You laid down the red lines on this chart marked J. Mc. 

 D. V? A. I did. 



Q. I suppose you know the Admiralty charts, and have found 

 them correct along that shore? A. They are what I have been in 

 the habit of using. 



Q. (Mr. jMacCoy here reads to the witness the bearings of 

 the schooner Frederick Gerring, Jr., as stated in Capt. Knowlton's 

 testimony.) You have laid those bearings down on the chart? Is 

 that correct according to that testimony? A. Yes. 



Q. Then this would be the place where the schooner was at 

 the time she was seized? A. Yes. 



O. Capt. MacKenzie states where he found her when she ran 

 down to her net (read statement as to this from Capt. MacKenzie's 

 testimony), the place marked position of Gerring according to 

 Capt. AlacKenzie's testimony shows where she would be, according 

 to Capt. MacKenzie's statement as to where he found her ? A. Yes. 



Q. These bearings that you have marked on the chart are cor- 

 rect according to that testimony? A. Yes. 



Q. Now before an easterly blow, what is the direction of the 

 current on that shore? A. Just before an easterly blow, the cur- 

 rent sets to the westward. 



Q. Do you know the direction? A. It sets directly westward, 

 west along the shore, conforming somewhat to the trend of the 

 land. 



Q. Have you marked the direction of the current on that 

 chart? A. Yes. 



O. Immediately before a strong easterly blow, what would be 

 the rate of the current there according to your experience? A. It 

 depends upon the force of the following wind. I have seen it run 

 as high as a mile and a half an hour. With a strong easterly wind 

 it would run from half to three-quarters of a mile an hour. 



Q. Capt. Knowlton says that the next day there was quite a 

 strong easterly wind. y\ssuming that to be so, in your judgment 

 what would be the rate of current on that coast? A. I should say 

 it would be less than half a mile an hour in that vicinity. It 

 was running to the westward. 



