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CHAP. I.] BINDING CHANNEL. 69
the west side, where at three-quarters of a cable distant there is a sunken
rock having 3 feet water. Pulo Plando, a small islet, 7 feet high, lies nearly
midway between North-west islet and Great Binding.
North Point.—The shore of Great Binding, between North-west
point and North point, is bordered by a shoal flat, which extending from
either point forms a tongue, the extremity of which is nearly midway
between the two points, and extends off shore a distance of 1^ cables.
On the outer end of this tongue is Grasshopper islet, 120 feet high and
wooded.
OflF-lying rock, 2 feet high, occupying a shoal space of half a cable
in extent, east and west, lies East 2 cables from North point. Midway
between the rock and the shore there are depths of 5 to 8 fathoms.
Telok "Da.l g.m (Shoal bay) is formed between a point which is
half a mile south-east of North point, and Scorpion point. At the head of
the bay there is a fishing village and a cocoa nut grove. The bay is shoal,
having only from 6 to 9 feet water on a line joining the entrance points.
A spit extends about 2 cables eastward and northward of Scorpion point.
Cliarybdis rock, a pinnacle having a depth of 2 feet, lies 1^
cables north from Scorpion point. The ground is foul between.
Bower patch., having a depth of 15 feet, is about half a cable in
diameter, marked by a buoy on its north side, and lies N. by W. J W.,
distant 3 cables from Scorpion point. The summit of North-west islet, in
line with North point, leads on to Bower patch. The summit midway
between North point and off-lying islet, leads north of Bower patch in 4
fathoms least water.
Table rock, 22 feet high, is situated one mile south-east of Scorpion
point, and about one cable from the south point of Telok Churapada, a
shallow bay.
The east shore of Great Binding from Table rock, trends south, and at
the distance of one cable outside the small bays formed in its shores not
less than 6 fathoms water will be found.
% Port Pangkor,—The settlement at Port Pangkor, situated one mile
southward of Table rock, consists of a police station and a few houses
scattered on the beach. The ground in the vicinity is swampy.
Small vessels may be readily and safely grounded for examination or
slight repairs between tides. Labour may be obtained.
East bank commences at Mehegan point, and skirting the shore for
about one mile to the southward, thence trends to the westward and north-
ward in a long narrow tongue, dry in places; the north point of the tongue
of 3 fathoms, immediately in the approach to Binding river, is marked by
a buoy, with Menegan point bearing S.E. by E. distant one mile. East
bank skirts the mainland as far as Tanjong Katta; its western edge froin