The China Pilot: Comprising the Coasts of China, Korea, and Manchuria; the Sea of Japan, the Gulfs of Tartary and Amúr, and the Sea of Okhotsk ...Hydrographic Office, 1861 - 459 頁 |
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14 miles abreast anchor anchorage appears approach Bate island bearing N.E. bluff boats Boca Tigris Bonin islands cable's length Canton river Cape centre channel chart Chusan Chusan archipelago cliff coast danger depth direction distance east east point eastern eastward entrance fathoms fathoms water feet high flat formed Formosa full and change gulf half a mile harbour head high water hill island bearing junks knots land lies Lintin low water miles long miles wide monsoon mountains nearly north end North-east monsoon north-west northerly northern northward pagoda passage passing peak Peel island Port reef extending rise river rocky round Saddle island sand sandy Sea of Okhotsk shelter shoal sima small islet soundings south end south extreme south point south-east south-west point southern southward spit steep-to steer strait summit sunken rock tide vessel village Volcano island weather west point western shore western side westward winds Yedo
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第 335 頁 - group consists of three islands, of which Peel island, the largest and most southern, is 4$ miles in length. The northern island is named Stapleton, and the centre one Buckland. This group is 9£ miles in length, and is divided by two channels so narrow that they can only
第 322 頁 - fathoms water, until boats or buoys can be placed along the edges of the reefs bordering the channel; for without some such guides, it will be difficult for a vessel of large draught to find her way in between the reefs, which contract, in places, to within a cable's length of each other, and
第 19 頁 - steamer passed on into a narrow shallow channel, scarcely more than the breadth of a canal, where she anchored head and stern for the night. At day-light on the 14th, weighed and proceeded up the river in the steamer's draught of water, and not broader than her own length, grounding occasionally on both
第 106 頁 - the island of Amoy is so narrow and winding that directions would be useless ; the chart is the best guide. The bay of Sungseu, on the north side of which the city of that name is built, runs back 7 miles to the westward from Kulangseu ; it is, however, shoal and only navigable for small craft.
第 317 頁 - attached to all these buoys, and they afford good guides for the South and Oar channels. There are two large stakes on the reefs to the eastward and westward of the North channel, planted there by the natives, this being the channel mostly used by junks trading to the northward.
第 319 頁 - the reefs below water in these directions are said to be more extensive than is shown on the chart. After clearing the Reef islands, steer for Wood hill on a SSE bearing until getting upon the line of bearing for the South channel. This will lead well clear of
第 336 頁 - and other vegetables, fruits of various kinds, together with wild hogs and goats, can be procured from the few whites and Sandwich islanders settled at Port Lloyd. Wood is good, and plentiful ; and water can be had, though in limited quantities, and slightly tainted by the coral rocks from which it springs. The best
第 316 頁 - on the south-west side of Okinawa sima, is the principal sea-port of the island, and perhaps the only one possessing the privileges of a port of entry. The inner, or Junk harbour, carries a depth of 2 to 3 fathoms, and though small, is sufficiently large to accommodate with
第 19 頁 - provincial town of Heang-shan. The dense population thickly crowded the banks, boats, junks, housetops, the large pagoda, and surrounding hills ; both sides of the river were packed with trading craft of the country, the centre of the river, which is very narrow, having merely sufficient space to allow
第 320 頁 - This channel, being quite straight, is more desirable for a stranger entering the harbour than the Oar channel, which, though wider, has the disadvantage of its being necessary for a vessel to alter her course some four or five points, just when she is in the midst of reefs which are nearly all below the surface of the water.