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168 WEST COAST OP SUMATRA. [ohap. iir.
deepens suddenly to 26 or 28 fathoms, and from the cape the coast trends
eastward to Susu.
Shoals.—At about 2^ miles off shore, midway between Tadu and
Trepali, a shoal is said to exist, but the exact position is doubtful. Also
at about 4 miles S. by E. from Trepah, and 2 miles off shore is a shoal of
3 fathoms.
CAPE FELIX (Tanjong Kajah) is a low level headland, bold
to approach ;
it forms the western extremity of the bay in which stands the
town of Susu (Soesoe). The cape is difficult to distinguish, but there is a
small flat house half a mile to the eastward of the cape, by which, if the
vessel be within 2 miles of the shore, it may be known.
A small coral shoal is said to lie close inshore just northward of the
cape.
Outlying shoals.—A shoal of 4 fathoms lies with cape Felix bearing
E. by N, ^ 'N., distant 14^ miles.
A reef nearly circular 2 miles in diameter and having 5 fathoms of water,
lies with cape Felix bearing K.E., distant 13^ miles.
A reef of similar extent to the last-mentioned reef, with a depth of 4
fathoms, and po bottom at 55 fathoms close to, lies with cape Felix, bearing
N ^ W., distant 13 miles. At about 1^ miles N.W. of this reef is a smaller
patch of less than 3 fathoms, with deep water between.
At 15 miles S.E. from cape Felix is a patch with less than 3 fathoms,
and at 1^ miles N.E. and S.E. from this patch are others of 3 and 5 fathoms.
These patches appear to be the westernmost of many isolated patches ex-
tending from cape Mungin. Much caution is necessary in approaching
this part of the coast.
Crimea patch, with a depth of 4^ fathoms, and 30 fathoms close to,
lies with cape Felix, bearing N.W. by W. | W., about 12 miles, and
Lama Muda N. I W.
About midway between cape Felix and Kwala Batu is a shoal at 1
miles from the shore, and nearer the latter the shoals extend 3^ miles off
shore, for which the chart will be found the best guide.
KWALA BATU, about 13 miles to the eastward of cape Felix, is
during the N.W. monsoon, one of the safest and best roadsteads on this
coast.* Coasting from cape Felix, at 4 or 5 miles off shore, in 28 or 30
fathoms, a vessel may steer about E. ^ N". in this depth, (which will lead
between the shoals extending 3^ miles southward of Kwala Batu, and
Crimea patch), until two clumps of trees showing like islands, about a mile
apart, are seen ; these are Pulo Kio and Ujong Seranjah the extremes of
* See plan of Kwala Batu and Susu, on Admiralty chart, No. 2,760; scale, m = 1-25
inches.
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