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thorities and regulate the salute ; and on her return, the first intel- 
ligence was confirmed of the present health of the city ; so that 
the commodore changed his anchorage by moving to a more 
pleasant birth, within about four miles of the commercial capital 
of Java. 
As this chapter has been principally devoted to a description 
of the Strait of Sunda, and the Potomac's passage through it on 
the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of March, eigh- 
teen hundred and thirty-two, we cannot more appropriately con- 
clude it than by adding the following document, containing a table 
of the beacons, twenty-two in number, on the shoals in the navi- 
gable waters of the Strait of Sunda, to and from Batavia Roads, 
replaced by order of the Dutch government, June sixth, eigh- 
teen hundred and thirty-two, three months after the Potomac's 
visit. The names of the shoals marked with an asterisk^*) have 
a beacon with a cross ; those marked thus (t) have only a cross. 
The beacons with crosses, are beams, with a crosstree painted 
white ; those without are single beams, painted white, both kinds 
extending twelve feet above water. In case one or more of the 
beacons should be removed by violence of the weather or other- 
wise, bamboo stakes, fifteen or twenty feet above water, with 
baskets covered with cloth painted black and white, will be placed 
in their stead, until they can be replaced by proper wooden pillars. 
Beacon number eleven stands upon a rock not laid down on any 
chart, to which the name of Mathilda Rock has been given, it 
being known in Malay language by the name of Karang Prol. 
The rocks on which beacons eighteen and twenty are placed, have 
hitherto had no Dutch names, they are now called the Wrange 
and the Midden Rock. The native names are in parentheses. 
The number of feet mentioned after the situation of the beacon, 
shows the depth at low water. 
Father Smit's Bankf (Poeloe Poetrie), situated on the northeast 
point, nine feet ; Leyden bearing north-northwest-half-west, and 
the beacon on Neptune's Shoal bearing west-quarter-south. Nep- 
tune's Shoalf (Karang Passier), on northwest point, twelve feet ; 
Leyden northeast-quarter-north ; eastern point of Hoorn north- 
northwest-three-quarters-west. The Pasopt (Karang Tanglam), 
on northeast point, twelve feet ; Leyden northeast-half-north ; 
eastern point of Hoorn north-northwest-quarter-west. Rhynland 
