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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 67 FROM EAGLE HARBOR TO EAGLE RIVER, SOUTHWEST BY WEST ONE-HALF WEST SEVEN MILES. e'Ehenhi is no harbor at Eagle River. To come to the heal keep a ienthiens lead-colored house, with a chimney on the north end of it, in a line with the second window of the hotel just behind the house, | and run over the middle ground in 3 fathoms water; when over, you drop into 4 and 5 fathoms, and run for the dock. The dock or pier runs out NW. Or bring the end' ofthe dock to bear south at _ the distance of 2 miles, and run for it. In approaching the dock, keep well to the westward, and go in at an angle of 40°, to clear the sand bank that has formed off the end of the pier. There was only 9 feet water at the pier in 1864, and you cannot go to thé east- ward of the pier at all. In running in at night, bring the Light- house to bear Sby ELE, and run for it till over the bar and near the dock; then go in as above. On this range you run over the western spit in three fathoms water, and a little over 4 mile from the end of the pier. . Variation of compass, 1864;.6°46' E. In going out, bound to. the westward, run the shore along for 2 miles, and shape your course for. wees River: ernie 13 miles ; thence SW48S 45 miles. -- cfs FROM ONTONAGON TO LA POINT. exc Ontonagon piers run out 2 or r8 miles NNW, and haul up ~ W4S 21 miles, to clear the land under the Porcupine Mountains and Lone Rock; thence WbyS4S 45 miles, to La Point Lighthouse. This Lighthouse was built im 1858, and the Light on Passage Island discontinued. It stands on a low sandy point, called Chag- Wwaumegon; at the entrance to: La Point. As you approach the Lighthouse you leave: Modolind' and the Apostle Islands to starboard, and haul up for the sandy point, keep- ing it well aboard until past the Lighthouse ; thence haul up NW northerly for the town of Bayfield, which has/a good dock and a saw mill... La Penk and o. Mission is on the east side, of a Bay ; ; has a dock, and good holding ground in from 8 to 5 fathoms, mud bottom. Off the SW point of Madeline Island a reef sets off 4 to 8 mile ina southerly direction, and opposite the Lighthouse.