The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

66. , LAKE ERIE. yards east of the buoy; 16 feet of water can be carried between this buoy and Gull Island Shoal buoy. Marblehead light-house, 5S. S. W. % W., 8 miles. Gull Island Shoal buoy, N. W. 234 miles. Gull Island Shoal.--Black gas buoy No. 3, showing a fixed white light 10 seconds, eclipsed 10 seconds, in 17 feet of water, stands in rocky bottom on northeast point of Gull island shoal. The water shoals gradu- ally inside the buoy until the rocks show above water 1,500 yards S. W.. %S. of buoy. Middle island light-house (Canadian), N. % W., 1 tole North end of Ballast island, W. 3% N., 5% miles. Ballast island Channel buoy, W. 4 N. Ballast Island Channel (outer).--Black spar buoy No. 5 in 15 feet of water, stands in rocky bottom at the south side of eastern entrance to a 'channel, with 14 or 15 feet of water, to the southward, and within 220 yards of Ballast island. Least width of channel, 130 yards opposite Bal- last island. The south side of channel éxtends 650 yards W. N. W. from the buoy, and its western end is passed when the range between the southeast point of Ballast island and the east side of Gibraltar island is reached. The north side of Ballast island may be passed close-to. East end of Ballast island, N. 54 W., 800 yards. South end of Middle Bass island, W. % S&S. Ballast Island Channel (inner).--Black spar buoy No. 7, in 16 feet of water stands on the south side at inner end of channel. South end of Middle Bass island, W. 34 S. East end of South Bass island, S. % W. Outer buoy, 5. S. E., 700 yards. | Entering Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island, Lake Erie, from the W estward. Sailing Directions.--Pass the buoy to the northward (not too close-to, although there is deep water close-to) and steer to round the bold N. E. end of Gibraltar island. Good anchorage and secure harbor inside. Peach Orchard Point.--Red gas buoy, showing a fixed white light, 10 seconds, eclipse 10 seconds, in 15 feet of water, marks the elbow of a rocky shoal extending 3875 yards northeast from Peach Orchard point (west side of bay), and thence 170 yards in towards Gibraltar island; western edge of shoal lies 140 yards outside the point. Northeast point of Gibraltar island, S. S. E. % E., 500 yards. Northwest side of South Bass island, S. W. by W. % W., 3% mile. West end of Sugar island, N. by W., 2 miles. | Standing Westward Along the South Shore of Lake Erie, Between Sandusky and Maumee Bays. MARBLEHEAD LIGHT-STATION.--A flashing white light, inter- val between flashes 10 seconds, 8rd order, visible 16 miles. White conical tower, 60 feet high, with detached dwelling. Lantern black. On the northeast end of Marblehead, and south side of eastern entrance to. channel between the Kelley's and Bass islands, and the mainland. The Life Saving Station is near the Quarry docks to the westward of the light. The shore is low and rocky, with deep water 300 yards distant. Good water to within 733 yards of Kelley's island, opposite. Four and three-quarter miles to the westward, and just south of the range between ~ this light-house and Mouse island, is a rocky 3-foot shoal; a channel, 500 yards wide, between the shoal and shore. The range between Marblehead light and Green island light (N. W. ¥.W., 11 miles) guides between Kelley's island, South Shoal and Starve island reef, on the north side of channel, and Scott's Point shoal and Mouse island reef on the south.