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5s very useful in rounding the reef, and enables the pilots 

 to keep their station, which is on a line due east from the 

 liahlhouse. It is very material not to mistake False for 

 True Point Palmyras. If a doubt is entertained on the 

 subject, a ship off False Bay, in fifteen fathoms, by steermg 

 north, will shoal the water over a bottom of soft mud ; but 

 from fifteen or sixteen fathoms oif Point Palmyras, and 

 clear of the north-east edge of the reef, in steermg north 

 she will deepen her water. In Balasore Roads, or otf Pomt 

 Pahnvras, the pilot-brig oug-Jit to be found in the south-west 

 monsoon, although ships beat about for several days before 

 they find one. It is advisable to anchor under Mypurra 

 . Island during the night, and stand over towards the Eastern 

 Sea-reef in the dav. Some navigators have ventured into 

 Saugor Channel, without having seen the land. The lol- 

 lowing instance may be adduced, as showmg the practica- 

 bility of doina so, and will also place in a stnkmg pomt of 

 view the accuracy of nautical science m the present day :-— 

 The honourable company's ship Thomas Grenville lett 

 Encrland on the 12th of June, 1825,— passed the Cape 20th 

 of Aucrust,— crossed the line in long. 80° east, and stood 

 right up the bay, u-ilkout having seen any land smce leaving 

 Eiiirland. Captain Manning, who is an excellent seaman 

 and' a skilful observer, found, by lunars and chronometers 

 agreeing, that the ship's true position at noon on the 1st ot 

 October was in long. 88° £0' east, and lat. 20° 25' north. 

 He steered north for the mouth of Saugor Channel, and 

 havin<r run about thirtv-five miles by log, fell in with a pilot- 

 brig in ten ftithoms water at six o'clock in the evening. 



Captain Ross, the company's marine surveyor, states, 

 that the Ucrht-vessel stationed in the Eastern Channel is 

 placed in fong. 88° 13' east, and not in 88° 25', as stated 

 bv Captain Maxfield. And he also thinks the extreme points 

 of the reefs two miles farther north than they are usually 

 marked in the charts. Pilots are sometimes to be found on 

 board this brig, and she \s distinguished dunng the day byu 

 white flag at her mast-head. o j • 



The channel is about five miles wide. Saugor Sand is 

 steep-to on io^A sides; and the sea-reefs are also steep-to 

 on their western edges ; but on their eastern sides the depths 

 decrease gradually, though quickly ; so that turning to wind- 

 ward in SaugM Chaunel, the soundings must be taken horn 

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