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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 111 'more secure than that of Port Hope, having a second or inner basin with plenty of water, where no sea can injure or disturb the vessels lying there. The mouth of the harbor is 130 feet wide, with water varying from 10 to 13 feet. The Lighthouse ~ is on the east pier, 20 feet high, and visible 8 miles. Dancer.--In entering this port, at night, care must be taken not to run too close to the south end of the west pier, where broken crib work and numerous piles project nearly 100 feet farther into the lake than the end of the east pier. 3 Snoat.--Midway between Port Hope and Cobourg there i is a dangerous shoal, called Gull Island, which is about two miles long, and one mile from the shore. It is sometimes bare, and has a Lighthouse erected upon it, 45 feet high, showing a bright, fixed white light, and visible 10 to 12 miles. In passing this shoal give it a berth of two miles. . GRAFTON. This village is about 8 miles east of Cobourg, has a pier run out into 10 feet water. COLBORNE, Is a village 8 or 9 miles below Grafton; has a pier for the accommodation of trading craft. Both these ports are exposed to the heavy seas of the lake, and afford no shelter to vessels, except when the wind is off shore. Danaer.--One mile west of Colborne there is a projecting point, off which is a reef of boulders. In approaching Colborne give the point a good berth. PRESQU'ILE. HARBOR. The West Bluff of Presqwile is 24 miles EN of Cobourg, well wooded, and has 90 feet water close in shore. Five miles NEbyE of this point-brings you abreast of the Lighthouse, which is 67 feet high, and shows a bright white light, visible 12 to 15 miles. - Give the Lighthouse point a berth of half a mile, to clear a shoal that sets off from it, in a southerly direction, haul up NbyE for the lone pine tree, until the inner range lights are in line; then haul up SW, keeping within fifty yards north of the beach of the first range light station, as there is