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CHAP. I.] NORTH AND SOUTH SANDS.—LENGET RIVER. 87
PSrramid Shoal, the eastera extreme of the South Sands chain, is
the most dangerous, standing out beyond the others a distance of 4 miles
nearer the track of vessels. The shoal is about one mile long, and' has one
fathom least water, bottom hard sand. Bambek shoal, the nearest danger
on the other side of the fairway track, bears N.E. by E. ^E. distant 12 miles
from Pyramid shoal ; Rachada light bearing E. by S. leads about 2 miles
northward of Pyramid shoal. Buoy proposed.*
Tides.—^It is high water, full and change, from 5h. 30m. at the head
of the North sands, to 6h. at One-fathom bank and on the South sands.
During springs the tides are regular, running N.W. and S.E. on the North
sands ; W.N.W. and E.S.E. on the South sands at the rate of 3 to 3^ miles
an hour, and run from two to three hours after the time of high and of
low water. The flood stream comes from the north-westward. During
neaps the tides are weak and irregular. Springs rise 15 feel, neaps
12 feet.
DIRECTIONS.—Vessels from the northward should make Onefathom
lighthouse bearing about E.S.E., and passing about 3 miles westward
and southward of it, should then haul to the eastward toward Tanjong
Parcelar, passing it at the distance of S miles ; maintaining this distance
off shore will clear Bambek shoal, as will also Kachada lighthouse, bearing
S.E. by E. -J E., or more eastward. In working to windward they should
not stand farther off the coast than 10 miles, nor nearer inshore than 3 miles
when between cape Eachada andi Bambek shoal. The depths near the
banks are so irregular that they afford no guide as to the proximity, of
those dangers.
At night. — Vessels should keep Kachada light bearing epstward
of S.E. by E. ^ E., or the light in sightj showjng brightly, tp j?iy;oi(jl
Bambek shoal. \ , ,i , ,, ^., .ji^
LINGEY mVEB.—The entrance of this river is situated i? miles
to the eastward of cape Eachada ; the coast between is fronted by a mud
bank which extends off the bight westward of Bukit Salainit, a distance
of 1;^ miles.' The river forms the western boundary of the British posses-
sion of Malacca, and is navigable- for vessels of-8 or 9 feet draught* as far
as Setnpang, about 5 mUes from the mbutfi, and for large boats for 4 or
3 miles beyond. - At Seinpang, where there is a police station, the tide
rises 9 feet at springs.f
AncllOrage.-^There is good anchorage off the entrance in 9 fathoms,
mud, with Eachada lighthouse bearing ' W.
by N. f'
Salaihit-N. I E. - ' >
* See Admiralty charts :—^Malacca Btiaity Nci. 7946, anft:l,355;
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