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104 SINGAPOKE STBAIT. "WESTERN PART. [chap, ii-
east side, but barely two cables from its south and west sides, close to
which are 9 and 11 fathoms, with 18 and 19 fathoms at a short distance.
The Rabbit and Coney are two small islets, nearly connected
with the south-east end of Barn island by a reef of i-ocks partly dry at low
water. The Coney, or southernmost, is the smaller, and distant from the
south-east point of Barn island rather more than one-third of a mile. A
rocky spit, covered at high water, projects from the Coney one cable to the
southward.
RAFFLES LIGHT.—The lighthouse on Coney islet, named after
Sir Stamford Eaffles, the founder of Singapore, is 91 feet high, and
exhibits at an elevation of 105 feet above high water, a^aicrf while light
which is visible from a distance of 13 miles, between the bearings of
S.E. by E. through north to S.W. by W. | W., westerly. To the west-
ward, the light well in sight bearing eastward of S.E. by B., clears Sultan
and Ajax shoals ; and to the eastward clears the reef extending from
Middle island, and St. John islands.
Mangrove Island and Reefs.—Mangrove island (Pulo Simakau)
about a mile in extent, lies near the centre of the group, 2| miles N.N.E.
from Coney islet, and about If miles ^vestward of Middle island ; between
it and Middle island is Pulo Siking surrounded by a reef.
. Southward
of Mangrove island are several reefs, or small coral patches,
the three outer ones of which bound the north side of the channel between
Middle island and Coney island. The southern extremes of these dangers
lie nearly in a line, and about S.W. by W. ^ W. from the south-east end of
Middle island, from which the nearest is distant nearly 1| miles ; the
eastern patch is partly dry, over the middle one there is a depth of If
fathoms, and over the western 2 fathoms.
The peak of Great Carimon in line with the north part of Barn island,
leads close to the southward of the western patch, but well clear of the
others ; it is advisable, however, not to come northward of a line joining
the southern extremes of West St. John and Barn islands.
Middle Island, or Pulo Sabariit, the eastern island of the group,
is half a mile long, 78 feet high, and surrounded by a reef which projects
from the south-east point nearly half a mile.
Rock.—^A dangerous ledge of rock which is steep to, lies S.E. by E.
distant 6 cables from the south-east point of Middle island. The ledge is
small, and covered, except at very low tides, some points of the rocks
being then just discernible.
A tripod beacon, painted red, sui-mounted by a basket, marks this rock.
Pulo Jong (a small round islet 75 feet high, lying half a mile north-west
ot Middle island) operf eastward of Middle island, leads north-east of the
ledge, and the south point of West St. John N.E. by E. i E., or Eaffles