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TRG RAED A RAT Sina Oe NR ea ce PP hth anes ede tiie eu h EY Cie i en 80 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. and the vicinity, are but a short distance from this lake, and the proprietors are making every effort to dredge a channel and build piers, which when completed, would be of incalculable advantage to them for shipping their copper, and also to the mariner as a safe harbor of refuge. This improvement is now 'going on and piers built. A Lighthouse is to be erected at the entrance of this harbor. A Lighthouse has been erected on the West Huron Island. Order of lens, three and a half, and will show, at an elevation of 197 feet above the lake level, a fixed white light. _ There is a good channel between Manitou Island and Point Kewawena. Torun through, give the SE point a good berth, -and haul up to the northward and westward, leaving Manitou 'Island to the eastward. FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO COPPER HARBOR, WEST BY NORTH FOUR- TEEN MILES. To run into Copper Harbor, coming from the eastward, keep along shore until past the point where the Lighthouse stands, and the stakes are ranged; then haul up for them, keeping on the range until past the rocks which are above water, and plain to be seen in daylight; then haul up the bay, steering W3S, until past Potter's Island, and come to anchor or run alongside the dock. The ranges are: a long pole or signal staff behind, and a low tripod in front of the dwelling at Fort Wilkins. The _ water is deep close round the Lighthouse point, and vessels can make a good harbor from easterly winds by hauling up into the bay to the eastward, closing in the light from a north line, and come to in3 to 4 fathoms. The land is high all round Point Kewawena. In coming from the eastward, a rocky hill, Mount Houghton, 800 feet high, and 12 miles SW of Point Kewa- wena, can be seen from 40 to 50 miles, and is a good leading mark. | The harbor is formed by a number of small rocky islands, just above water, extending from Potter's Island towards the Lighthouse, nearly east and west. Deep water going in.