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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT, : 95 south end of the pier is a store house, painted red, and under the angle formed by the roof is placed a large lamp, which serves the purpose of a lighthouse. This port is well protected from any wind north of E and W, but is exposed to southerly winds. The west side of the Bay of Oshawa is formed by a high clay bank, almost perpendicular to- wards the lake, on - extreme point of which stand three or four trees. : Danger.--The east point is called Oshawa Island, bearing south by east from the pier. 'The water here is very shoal, and a reef of large boulders extends into the lake SH, for 400 yards, which must be given a wide berth. From the point of land about midway between Whitby and Oshawa there is another reef of large boulders running out ESE into the lake. | PORT DARLINGTON Is 8 miles to the eastward of Oshawa, 50 miles ENE of Toronto, and 29 miles WbyS of Cobourg. This port has been much improved by extending the piers into 12 feet water, and dredging the land-locked basin within, where vessels drawing 9 feet or less may lie in safety in any weather. The west pier extends about 50 feet further south than the east pier, which breaks the rolling sea from the SW. The -- is on the east pier and visible but a short distance. One and a-half miles west of Darlington, 3 is Raby Head, a high clay bluff a destitute of trees or bushes. BOND HEAD OR PORT OF NEWCASTLE. Between 4 and 5 miles EbyN of Darlington is the port of Bond Head. It consists of a pier run out into 10 feet water ; but, from its exposed situation, can only be approscies in fine weather, or when the wind is off shore. Danger.--Four miles east of this port, there is a large boulder, some distance in the lake, called the Peach Stone, and four miles. east of this again, there is a reef of boulders, extending 800 yards into the lake in a southerly direction off the headland. Course-to clear these reefs, bound to Cobourg, EiN, 20 miles, giving the