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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 97 To enter the Tonawanda Channel to the eastward of the Strawberry Islands, leave the black spar buoys Nos. 3 and 5 to port. To enter the Tonawanda Channel to the westward of the Strawberry Island, leave the red spar buoys Nos. 6 and 8 to starboard, and the black spar buoys Nos. 7 and 9 to port. Buffalo light, fixed, visible 16 miles, on the end of south pier at Buffalo Creek. Fog Bell, struck by machinery every ten ~ seconds, TO ENTER BUFFALO HARBOR. From Point Abino steer EbyN$N 11 miles, direct for Buf- falo Lighthouse, leaving Horse Shoe Reef and Lighthouse to port; run to the eastward 200 yards clear ot Buffalo Light- house, until you range the north pier; then haul up and run in to the creek or under the breakwater. Depth of water going in 14 feet. | a Silver Creek or Cattaraugus light, fixed, visible 9 miles, on the west pier at Silver Creek. Dunkirk light, fixed, varied by flashes, visible 16 miles, at Dunkirk, on the SE shore of Lake Erie, west of the harbor. Beacon light, fixed, visible 9 miles, on the pier, west side of the entrance to Dunkirk Harbor. (Buoyed out.) Portland or Barcelona, 17 miles west of Dunkirk, has a good pier. Light discontinued. Erie or Presqwile light, fixed, visible 16 miles, on the main land, southeasterly from the piers at the entrance to the harbor. Beacon light, fixed, visible 10 miles, on the east end of the north pier. On the north side of the east entrance to Presqu'ile a shoal extends out from and around the east end of the north pier, with 8, 9 and 12 feet water on it. To enter the harbor, bound up, run along shore until well up to the Lighthouse on the mainland; and as you approach the south pier, you make a red can buoy, which leave to starboard, and haul in between the piers, and run along the north pier ina line with it, until past the end of it; then keep a little more to the northward, until you range the two beacons on the north