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ET OMe FoR Be PR EEN egy ee By TT Re oO , orn K 14 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. DIRECTIONS FOR SAILING NORTH OF THE BEAVER ISLANDS. FROM MACKINAW TO SEUL CHOIX POINT. From tlie middle of Mackinaw Harbor WSW 44 ea. or until you range the Rabbit's Back Point with Point St. Tenace ; thence WiN to Seul Choix Point. : This route passes 44 miles to the northward of Point Waugo- shance Lighthouse, and 14 miles to the north of the White Shoals. Seul Choix Point bears from Gull Island, which is the wester- most island of the Beaver group, NbyW4W 16 miles. The water is deep close to this point. You can approach the point in from 30 to 55 feet water. Rocky bottom. FROM SEUL CHOIX POINT TO HAT ISLAND, THIRTY MILES, AS FOLLOWS .; From Seul Choix Point EbySi8 30 miles ; thence on the same course 10 miles, to Point Waugoshance Lighthouse. This route passes 24 miles south of the White Shoals, and 14 miles north of Gray's Reefs. : FROM 8ST. HELENA ISLAND TO ABREAST OF THE MANITOUS, NORTH ABOUT, AND TO CHICAGO, THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO MILES. From St. Helena, after clearing the shoal which is due west from the island 2 miles, steer due west 40 miles; thence SW4{W 16 miles; thence Shy W4W, for Chicago, 278 miles. This route is only 9 miles further than the Sheboygan route, and is far more preferable in the fall of the year. A vessel or pro- peller, by keeping the west shore aboard, can go with a NW and westerly wind in smooth water, and make her passage with ease ; and in case of being driven down in thick weather to the northward and westward of the Beaver Island group, these routes will be found convenient for making the Straits, by keeping to the northward' of them all, and come in to the eastward. Gull Island Shoal bears from Gull Island SbyE+H, from High Island SWbyW, and from the SW point of Beaver Island WNW. There are two patches of shoal water a little to the southward and eastward of Gull Island Shoal, with 16 and 17 feet water on é oe