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LAKE ERIE. 59 Light Houses, Buoys, and Harbors on the North Shore of Lake Erie Standing to the Westward. PORT COLBORNE LIGHT-STATION.--Main light. ; A fixed white light, visible 16 miles. Open, wood, frame tower, light 70 feet above lake level. On west pierhead, at the western entrance to the Welland canal. : Port Colborne Range Light.--A fixed red light, visible 114 miles. White, square, wood tower, light 38 feet above lake level. On pier, east side of entrance, 1,130 feet N. E. ? KE. from main light. , The two lights, in range, give deepest water to entrance of canal, clear of Sugar Loat reef. In entering, main light must be passed to port, back one on starboard side. Fog horn sounds blasts of 11 seconds every 14 minutes. Port Colborne Beacon.--A vertically striped red and white beacon, surmounted by a globe, stands on outermost crib of east pier, not lighted. To enter the harbor, bring the light in range, and when near the end of west pier port so as to clear it, and follow it into the basin ; 16 feet can be carried in. Sugar Loaf hill, 1¢ miles west of -Port Colborne, is a good mark for vessels bound down the lake. A reef extends from the east side of the entrance, in a southerly direction, an 11-foot spot near its outer end bears S: by E.4 E. from the main light 1,000 yards distant. : MOHAWK ISLAND LIGHT-STATION.--A revolving white light, interval of revolution 3 minutes, visible 15 miles. White, circular, stone tower, 60 feet high, light 64 feet above lake level. On an island 1 mile southwest of main land, and 34 miles S. E. by E. from the entrance to Port Maitland, and 14 miles west of the entrance to the Welland Canal. Good protection from 8. W. and W. gales can be had by anchoring under the lee of a reef which extends in a southeast direction about 24 miles from the light, come to in about 34 fathoms with the light bearing west. Shoal water extends to the westward of Point Selkirk, which is 25 miles east of the light. PORT MAITLAND LIGHT -STATION.--A fixed white light, visible 13 miles. White, open frame, wood tower, light 51 feet above lake level. On west pier at the entrance to Grand river. Grand River, or Port Maitland, is a good harbor and easy to make, the piers are 1,500 feet in length. T'o enter the har- bor, run straight in, keeping the west pier well on board ; depth of