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114 SINGAPORE STRAIT?. [chap. ix.
Keppel rock, with 24 feet water, is 23 yards long in an east and
west direction, and 12 yards broad, and lies W.S.W., one cable from the
western extreme of the Peninsula and Oriental Company's works.* Close
around the rock are depths of 5 and 6 fathoms. The south extreme of
St. James hill on with the eastern extreme of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's jetties leads southward of the rock.
Mseauder shoal, about one cable in extent, east and west, with
from 6 to 16 feet water, lies on the south side of the main channel of
New harbour, about 1^ cables south of the Peninsula and Oriental
Company's works, and a cable to the north-west of the extreme of the spit
extending from Risim point. The northern edge of the shoal is marked by
two red buoys ; around and in the channel between it and Eisim spit, the
depths are 3J to 4^ fathoms.
Ayer Brani Island, (Pulo Brani,)
lies in New harbour.
It is nearly two-thirds of a mile long, east and west, and the same in
breadth ; its greatest length is on its north-eastern side, facing Singapore
road, and upon this part are three hills, the middle one, which is the
highest, being 168 feet above the sea. Tereh point, the north extreme of
the island, and Teregeh [point, the south-east extreme, are both formed by
cliffs ; those forming Tereh point are of a red colour and present a bold
red bluff, which is conspicuous when viewed from either entrance of the
harbour.
This island, like Blakan Mati, is encircled by a coral reef with occasional
patches of sand, which uncover at two-thirds ebb. Prom Risim point
the west extreme of the island, the reef extends If cables to the west-
ward, and forms a spit, having a white beacon on its outer edge, thence
it trends about E.N.E. 4 cables, to the naval store jetty on the west side
of Tereh point. Prom Tereh point the reef projects only about 20 or
30 yards, thence it curves round to the south-eastward, passing about
a cable outside Silingsing point, at the middle of the east side of Ayer
Brani, and terminates abreast Teregeh point. Prom this point the reef
projects about half a cable to the southward, and more than 2 cables east-
ward, the extreme of the latter part being known as Teregeh spit, and
marked by a white beacon.
Buoys.—A black buoy with ball is moored in 2| fathoms, about one
cable north-east of the white beacon on Teregeh spit, and a similar black
buoy in 5 fathoms, about one-third of a cable off the reef, abreast Brani bay.
Saga bay.—Between Tereh and Risim points, on the north-west side
of Ayer Brani, is Saga bay, dry at low water, which offers great facilities
for the construction of dry docks.
* H.M.S. Charyhdis, \>j the explosion of dynamite, increased the depth from 15 feet
to 24 feet.