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awash; and off the ragged cape called Pinnacle Point, (N. N. W. one mile and three quarters 
from the 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 edges 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-stn^i bluff, but be careful of a shoal which extends about three cables 
length 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 long shoal, with 
only two and two and a half fathoms. The water shoals gradually toward it, and the helm 
may safely be put dowm 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 Ismeiiai 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 otlier danger than the 
above-mentioned knoll. The large square rock at the northern part of this bay (Ismenai 
Rock) may be passed at a cable-length distance. This rock is connected with the land to 
the northward by a reef, and in standing back toward it the Pinnacle 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 wuth the bluff south of it (which has a large green bush over- 
hano-ino- 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 shore ; until this is past do not shut in Pinnacle Point with the light-house. 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 m sight. 
There is no good mark for determining wdien you are to the northw'ard 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 distance, of having passedit; (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 nothing to obstruct your beat-up to the 
anchorage. The ground is every where good, and a person may select his own berth. 
Rakovya Harbour, on the eastern side of Awatska Bay, will afford good security to a 
vessel running in from sea with a southerly gale, at which time she might find difficulty in 
bringing up at the usual anchorage. In this case the Rakovya shoal must be rounded and 
left to the northward; five and five and a half fathoms will be close upon the edge of it, but 
the water should not be shoaled under nine fathoms. 
The little harbour of Petrapaulski is a convenient place for a refit of any kind. In 
