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130 GEORGIAN BAY. house, on the east shore of the Georgian bay. Kept in line bearing N. E, % E., they will lead a vessel northwest of the shoals between the Black Bills and Point au Baril. This range will be found serviceable in daylight, to a vessel proceeding to Point au Baril harbor from the southeastward. It intersects the line of the Point au Baril range light-houses, at 2-1/5 miles distant from the front one of the latter. : Day Beacons in inside channel, between Point au Baril and Parry Sound.--Fifteen beacons (6 red and 9 white) have been erected between Twin island, Sha-wa-na-ga bay and Point au Baril, to assist in the naviga- gation of part of the inside channel leading to Parry sound, on the east side of Georgian bay. These beacons are not placed as ranges to clear shoals, nor is it intended that a vessel should rigidly steer from one to the other, but like the larger beacons in Parry sound itself, they are for the purpose of affording to a stranger an indication of the route among the numerous islands off this shore. In proceeding towards Parry sound, a vessel should keep the red beacons on her starboard hand. A few directions are now given, with a description of these beacons, which may assist a stranger drawing not more than 10% feet in getting through. The inside channel between Twin island and Point au Baril may be divided into three parts or reaches, the southern, widest and longest, being a part of Sha-wa-na-ga bay; the northern and narrowest division may be termed the Point au Baril reach, the remaining portion being considered the middle reach. : Of the beacons, four are erected in Sha-wa-na-ga bay, viz.: a red one surmounted by a white square on the southeast point of Twin island, a similar one on the southeast extremity of Grave or Bald island, a white beacon and triangle on the summit of Lloyd island (situated near the lat- ter), and another of the same character on Turning island at the junction of Sha-wa-na-ga bay with middle reach. To reach clear of the dangers between Twin and Grave islands, Turning island should be kept its breadth open of Grave island. Between the last mentioned islands a vessel may steer from one beacon to the other. In the middle reach, there are three beacons, which includes that on Turning island; the little rock on which the center one is placed being named Pym rock. The western white beacon is placed on Sedgewick point near the junction of the middle and Point au Baril reaches. Between Pym rock and Sedgewick point beacons a vessel should keep nearer the north shore to avoid a rock with 6 feet of water over it, lying on the south side of the channel. In the Point au Baril reach there are 9 beacons, 4 of which are red, to be kept as before stated, on the starboard hand when proceeding to Parry sound. , : The two southernmost red beacons are upon Abbott and Passage isl- ands, between the latter of which and Sedgewick point is the narrow chan- nel generally used, although (as will be seen when the chart is published) the channel between the next island and Abbot island is broader and deeper. If using the narrow channel keep rather nearer Sedgewick point than Passage island, and a vessel will carry 15 feet of water and avoid a shallow, rocky spur making out from Passage island. : When through these narrows, the first white beacon come to marks the south point of a bight, the coast of which a vessel should follow round, in order to avoid a rock with 8 feet of water over it, abreast of and connected with an island with a pole on it. In the bottom of this bight a pair of small white beacons should be kept in line to lead east of this danger, and between the shoals 155 yards north of it, with 14 feet of water. . From this to Point au Baril harbor a vessel has only to keep in the middle of the channel pointed out by the remaining beacons. Baia is