The British mariner's directory and guide to the trade and navigation of the Indian and China seas. Containing instructions for navigating from Europe to India and China. And from port to port in those regions, and parts adjacent: With an account of the trade, mercantile habits, manners, and customs of the natives / [Hattie Maen Elmore].

  • Elmore, Hattie Maen.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The British mariner's directory and guide to the trade and navigation of the Indian and China seas. Containing instructions for navigating from Europe to India and China. And from port to port in those regions, and parts adjacent: With an account of the trade, mercantile habits, manners, and customs of the natives / [Hattie Maen Elmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sumatra, as in many places they reach three leagues oft fhore, and ftiould not be approached nearer than fix or five fathoms, in which depth you will have fand and mud, and fometimes (hells. The reef off Carrang Hodjee on the other fide is equally danger- ous, having deep water clofe to in many places, as 25, 30, 18, and 16 fathoms. When the peak of Monopen-hill bears N.E. the centre of Carrang Hodgee is in one with it; when the top of the hill bears N.E. three-quarters E. the weft end of Carrang Hodgee is on with it; and when the top of Monapen-hill is N.E. half N. the eaft end of the reef is on with it; 13, 10, or eight fathoms water is the beft water in this channel; and you can haul to the northward as circumftances may require. Being paft the fouth wafh of Salt-river, which is the firft after pafling Battacarran-point, keep along the edge of the mud bank that lies off Palambang-river; this is the fecond after pafiTing Battacarran, in nine or eight fathoms, until you are abreaft the third or Falfe- river; then haul oft' and deepen to ii or 13 fathoms: and when the ifland in Falfe-river is open in the entrance, and you fee the appear- ance of a palTage at each fide of it, you will, perhaps, get a caft on a lump of fand, with fix fathoms on it; but you muft not be alarmed as there is no lefs, nor will you get a fecond caft: you muft not in-‘ creafe your foundings to more than 14 fathoms, as there is a reef off Carrang Bram to the eaftward of you, lying off Tanjong Cooney, whofe S.E. end when in one with Monopen-hill bears N.W. half N. and its bank reaches to the reef olF Carrang Hodgee already mentioned. Being paft the Falfe-river haul to the eaftw^ard, and do not come nearer Salfee-river which is the fourth and laft you meet between Battacarran-point and the fourth point. Come no nearer the (hore than 10 fathoms, as the bank is as fteep to as a wall, and round the fourth point at two and a-half or three miles diftance, and come no nearer it than eight fathoms, mud; keep along the Sumatra fhore at two