Soundings and
tides.
Winds.
Melville Point.
Teu-clioo-foo
city.
Cheatow Bay.
struck at midnight on the 1 7 th instant. When at anchor
ju st outside the shoal, the south island bore south 2 0 ° east,
and the other, east 2 1 ° south; on the shoal there was two
and a half fathoms, hard bottom. I t seems to extend in a
north and south direction, and is very narrow. I t lies in
37° 32' north, which I ascertained by altitudes of the pole
star, under favourable circumstances. I t is 1 ° 58' SO"- east of
the Pei-ho.
The soundings on this side of the Gulf are somewhat
deeper than on the other, but not so deep as might have been
expected from the bold nature of the land. The ebb tide
runs to the north-eastward, and the flood into the Gulf.
The wind was south-east and quite light, from the 1 1 th
August to the 17th, when it shifted to north north-east till
about eight P. M. when close in shore near the southern of the
two islandá ; it then blew off, with all the appearance of a
regular land breeze. On the 1 9 th it blew a gale of wind
from the north-east, with a short, high sea r during the gale
we lay a t anchor off a remarkable point, connected with the
main land by a low sandy n e ck ; the ground felt soft to the
lead, but it was probably rocky under the mud, as both
ships lost a bower anchor by the cables being cut. This
point lies in 37° 42' north, and 2 ° 35' east of the Pei-ho.
We found the city of Teu-choo-foo to lie in 3 4 east of
the Pei-ho. The latitude observed in Teu-choo-foo roads
was 37° 53' north, and the longitude 2° 54' east of the
Pei-ho. The western Meatow Island bearing north.
The latitude of a small island at the north-east corner of
the Bay of Cheatow or Zee-a-tow, was determined by the
sun’s meridian altitude on shore, to be 37° 35 52 north,
and longitude east of the Pei-ho 3° 45', or in 121 S4 east
of Greenwich.
The latitude of Oei-hai-oei was observed on shore to be od-imi-od.
37° 30' 40" north, and lies 4° 25' east of the Pei-ho.
The variation of the compass in the Yellow Sea was
found to be 2 ° If? westerly.
The rise and fall of the tide at the anchorage of the
squadron off the Pei-ho was twelve feet. I t was high water
a t full, and change at III. The flood tide runs to the
west-south-west, and the ebb generally about east and east-
south-east. Its strength and direction are a good deal
influenced by the prevalent winds.
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