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Full text: 1870 (1870)

Mediterranean. 
Port of Alexandria. 
The folio wiug directions, resulting from 
a recent survey, for the Boghaz and Marabiit 
passages into Alexandria harbour, have been 
drawn up by Captain G, S. Nares, of H. M. S. 
Newport, in connexion with Hydrographic 
Notice, No. 1 of 1857, for the Port of 
Alexandria. 
(All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 
6‘° Westerly in 18(H).) 
The Boghaz or Central Pass is the 
deepest through the reef, it commands 25 feet, 
the narrow channel of 28 feet being only 30 
feet wide. 
Bound through the central pass irom the 
westward, keep the Pharos tower well open 
of Black rock until the Buheireh beacon is 
just open on the east side of El Kot beacon, 
bearing S. 84° E. (S.E. by E. E.); steer in 
with those marks open until the El Fara 
beacon is in line with the West beacon, bea 
ring S. 19 W. (S. by W. J W.), then hard a 
port to bring the North beacon (a low stone 
tower with a dome top) in line with the knob 
on the east end of the black Horn mark on 
the coast, bearing S. 28 c E. (S. S. E. t E.), 
which leads trough the deepest water between 
El Fara and El Kot shoals to the striped 
green and white buoy in the fairway of the 
pass in not less than 25 feet water. 
Bound from the anchorage seaward through 
the Central pass, steer for the green and white 
striped buoy at the entrance, and when the 
North beacon is in line with the knob on the 
east end of the black Horn mark on the coast, 
bearing S. 26' E. (S.S.E. E.) steer with those 
marks on until the lighthouse on Eunostos 
point is in line with Abubakar islet, bearing 
N. 62 E. (N.E. by E. | E.), then hard a-star 
board, and steer out with the Buheireh bea 
con just open on the east side of El Kot 
iHittrlmrrr 
für hie 
tilth iWimtbtu Hinfahrt in hen 
>><ifcn toon 311craiihrtcit. 
(Teilungen ftnb mi fur. IDlifjmcifung 6 Sßeft 
in 1869.) 
T^r 'Begbaj- ober Sentral«T ö § ift auf 
bem tKiff ber tieffte; fr bat 25' STaffer; bas entere 
gabrreaffer mit 28' Tiefe ift nur 90' breit. 
'Ton Tieften fommenbe Schiffe, irelcfec bureb 
ben Central -Tafi geben reellen, muffen ben 'pbarci 
Thurm gut frei Pom fchrearjen Reifen halten, bis 
bie ühiheireb Tale nedt eben frei im Cften ben 
ber & Hct Tale in S 64 0 (S 0 z 0 \ O) peilt; 
airbann fteuere man, biefe Taten atii emanber 
baltenb, ein, bi£ bie 61 ,iara Taft mit ber S'ieff- 
ba!e in ber 'Teilung S 19 W (SzWJW) fiefc 
beeft. SMer angefemmen, lege man bas Stüber 
bart Tacfbetb unb bringe bie Sterbbafe (ein nie* 
briger Thurm aus (stein mit einer ßuppel) in 
S?inie mit bem Citenbe ber an ber Hüfte gelegenen 
fchrearjen riern • 'l'carfe in ber Teilung S'jii O 
(S 8 U .) O). Tiefe Sticbtung führt bureb bai 
tieffte SBaffer jreifeben ben CI gara unb C! Hot 
Untiefen binbureb ju einer grün unb treifi ge- 
ftreiften Boje im freien gabrreaffer in nicht treili 
ger ali 25' Tiefe. 
Schiffe, lrefcbe bureb ben Central-Tafc auigehen 
reellen, müffen auf bie grün unb reeik geftreifte 
Tenne tu halten, bir bie ffterbbafe mit bem Cft- 
enbe ber fchrearjen riern-iUarfe in Cina gebracht 
ift uub bann in btefem Sllignement NNW \ W 
fteuern, bii ber tieuchttburm auf ber Spike Cu- 
noftoi über ber Reinen v \nfel ülbubafar erfepeint 
unb N 112 0 (NOzO 4 0) peilt; airbann lege 
man bar Stüber hart Steuerberb unb fteure mit 
NWzW } W Huri ober bie 'Bubeireb - Tafe
	        
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