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oe LAKE MICHIGAN. | | 183 kee river, Width between piers, 286 feet. During thick or foggy weather, a steam-whistle is sounded, giving blasts of 5 seconds at inter- vals of 55 seconds. The fog-signal house is on the pier, inside of and adjoining the beacon-light. The keeper's dwelling, with the tower of the old discontinued light attached, both built of Milwaukee brick, is on the north pier, inside of the Pierhead light. Milwaukee light-house, N. by E. # E., 3 miles. a : Milwaukee Harbor.--This improvement consists of two par- allel piers and a dredged channel between them, known as the "North cut," connecting the deep water in Milwaukee river with the deep water in Milwaukee bay. The piers are of equal length, about 1,800 feet. Direction, E.4.N. Depth of water: The channel between the piers for a width of 100 feet, is 16 feet deep. The Life Saving Station is near the inner end of the south pier. | as Harbor of Refuge, in Milwaukee bay, in process of construc- tion. The projectisto construct a breakwater, the north arm of which commences near North point at a distance of about 600 feet from the north shore of the bay, in a depth of 8 feet of water, and extends S. SE. 3 H., 2,450 feet to the north angle. From this point the direction of /the main arm of the breakwater is changed to 8. 4 W. for the proposed distance of 5,200 feet, with an opening of 400 feet at a distance of 1,000 feet from the angle to provide a fair weather entrance and exit for vessels. i | | The new breakwater is so far completed that shelter can be ob- tained behind it from northeasterly gales. The southern end, which bears N. E. by N. from the Pierhead light, distant 7,200 feet, 1s marked by a lightship, from which two lights, white above red, are ex- hibited, To be extended 400 feet to southward. © 6 MILWAUKEKH,