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LAKE ERIE. 53 Inner Range Beacon-light (rear).--A white, shed-roofed building, with long panelled front, to traverse the light at pleasure; a black stripe, from ground to eaves, on each side of lantern-win- | dow; height of light, 21 feet. : 3 The Inner Range beacon lights are fixed red lights, visible 10 and 113 miles. On the east bank of Maumee river, 14 miles above its mouth. Distance between beacons, 730 feet. Middle Ground.--Red spar buoy in 14 feet of water ; the | last buoy stands in clay bottom, at the upper end and outer edge of the Middle ground; pass it to the eastward. Along this stretch, flats with only 5 feet of water in places make out from the east bank, one-half to two-thirds way across the river. Draw-pier of Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, S. W. # W., seven-eighths mile. © Draw-pier of Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad bridge, N. E. $ E. Kast Channel into Maumee Bay.--The Outer buoy may be approached from eastward on any course between N. W. and 8. E. From it steer directly for the Inner buoy, 8. W. From Inner buoy to Outer Range Elbow buoy, Main channel, W. S. W. 4 W., 3% miles. Hight feet of water may be carried through this channel; bottom of hard sand. Outer Buoy.--Black spar buoy in 12 feet of water. South side of entrance to channel, 200 yards inside the 12-foot curve of the bottom, and on the range (N. W. by N.) marking the extreme eastern 9-foot points of the shoals above and below the buoy. Turtle Island light-house, N. W. by W. $ W., 24 miles. Cedar point, S. by E., 14miles. Inner buoy, 8. W. £8., 750 yards. Inner Buoy.--Black spar buoy in 94 feet of water. South side of channel, 250 yards from theinner end. Turtle Island light- house, N. W. ¢ W., 24 miles. Outer Range Elbow buoy, W.8.W. 4+ W., 32 miles. Standing North along the West Shore of Lake Hrve, and | into the Detroit River. | Note.--Southwest gales lower the water at this end of the lake from 2 to 3 feet, and northeast gales raise it about as much. Raisin Point.--Black, 2d-class nun buoy in 15 feet of water. Marks the end of a shoal extending 14 miles from Raisin point; hard sand bottom. Monroe light-house, N. N. W. 3 W., 14 miles. Stony point, N. E. by N. $ N., 5 miles. ? MONROE LIGHT-STATION.--A fixed red light, 4th order, visible 13 miles. White, square low tower on white dwell- ing, dome of lantern red. On crib at outer end of north pier of entrance to the ship-canal leading into the River Raisin, Michigan,