Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Scott's New Coast Pilot for the Lakes [1st ed.], p. 47

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LAKE ERIE. 47 Cedar Point Range Beacon-light.--A fixed red light, 6th order, visible 11 miles. White, shed-roofed frame building, with long panelled front to traverse the light at pleasure. Hight of light above water, 26 feet. On crib at outer side of Cedar point, 200 yards south of channel, and same distance northeast of Cedar Point light-house. The lantern window of the beacon (between parallel black stripes from crib to eaves), in range with the tower of the light-house (S. W.), guides across the bar. This light should not be approached nearer than one-third mile on the range, nor passed entering the bay nearer than 200 yards. CEDAR POINT LIGHT-STATION.--A fixed white light, 5th order, visible 124 miles. White dwelling, surmounted by alow tower; light, 21 feet from ground, on Cedar point, south side of channel, which passes the point at a distance 75 yards. Frame buoy-house, with jetty wharf, on inner shore of the point, near the light-house. Marblehead light, 4 miles N. by W. 3 W. Sandusky Bay Ranges. North Beacon-light.--Black cylinder, 30 feet high, 20 inches in diameter, with octagonal watch-room at base; crib in 10 feet of water. | Main Beacon-light.--White, square, one-story building, ele- vated 11 feet above its crib, and connected with West beacon by a pile bridge; light exhibited from southeast corner of building; crib in 12 feet of water. Cedar Point light-house, EK. $ N. City Hall clock, S. $ E. West Beacon-light.--Red cylinder, 30 feet high, 20 inches in diameter, with octagonal watch-room at base; crib in 12 feet of water. The Sandusky Bay ranges are fixed white lights on cribs, the Main beacon at the elbow on the outer (N.W.) bank, and touching the channel and the North and West beacons 1,000 feet to the northward and westward, respectively, of the Main beacon. The West beacon, in range with the south side of Main beacon (EK. by N.iN.) guides through the west reach, in mid-channel, to Cedar point, 14 miles distant. The North beacon, in range with the east side of Main beacon (S. 4 W.), guides through the south reach, in mid-channel, to the inner elbow, one-half mile distant. 'The range between the West beacon and the City Hall clock (8. by E.) leads through the inner reach, in mid-channel. Standing Westward through the Kelleyand Bass Islands. Kelley's Island Reef.--Black, 2d-class nun buoy in 16 feet of water, marks the east end of a reef northeast of Kelley's island. The reef extends W. by S. $S., 14 miles from the buoy, and is 600

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