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68 MAIiACCA STRAIT.—MALAY COAST. [chap. i.
and extending from the shore a distance of 6 to 8 cables ; it gradually
diminishes its distance from the shore south of Mudge bluff as point
Motts is approached, and becoming dry in patches at low water springs
at one mile from that point. Lloyd rock, a pinnacle, awash at low water
springs, with 6 to 8 fathoms around it, lies 4 cables West of the point.
Dinding River, has a deep and clear entrance, which between
Mehegan and Motts points is 8 cables wide. The deep water passage
between North and East banks has a depth of about 4^ fathoms at low
water,, thence a channel 3 cables wide, and having 5 to 9 fathoms, extends
3 miles up the river, the farthest point reached by the surveying parties.
Yellow cliff 14 feet high and Eed cliff 26 feet high, both on the south bank
of the river, are conspicuous.
Pulo Eatta, a small wooded islet, 77 feet high, stands on the edge
of the bank near Tanjong Katta, south entrance to Dinding channel, and
is separated from the mainland by a shallow and rocky passage 3 or 4
cables wide.
Light, building.
The coast between False Dinding and Pulo Katta is rocky with
undulating hills close to the sea.
DINDING CHANNEL —North bank, having a depth of
3 to 15 feet, mud and sand, with one patch dry at low water, lies in the
north entrance of Dinding channel, and with ,the shoal bank which skirts
the main land adjacent nearly fills the nOrth entrance of that channel. Its
southern extreme lies half a mile north-east from Scorpion point, Great
Dinding. The southern edge of North bank, trends thence in a north-
west direction 2^ miles to the western extremity of the bank, at which
part there is a depth of 15 feet.
"Wedge rock, 3 feet high, lies on the west edge of North bank, and
S.W. by W. 1-^ff miles from Tanjong Hautu.
An outlying patch of 3 fathoms is situated 7 cables W. by S. from Wedge
rock.
Buoys.—A white buoy marks the south edge of North bank, abreast
Off-lying islet. A red buoy marks the north extreme of Bower patch.
Two white buoys mark the passage to Dinding river, one being placed
on the south-east extreme of North bank, the other on the north point
of East bank forming the south side of the passage. These buoys are
conical and numbered from 1 to 4 from seaward. Too much dependence
must not. be placed on the buoys maintaining these positions.
Pulo Trendah (north-west islet), lOo feet high, is small,
thickly wooded, and lies 5 cables distant from the north-west point of
Great Dinding ; in the channel between there is a deptli of 3^ to 10
fathoms. There is deep water within half a cable of the islet, except on