Sailing Directions for the West Coast of Scotland: Hebrides or Western Isles. Part I, Teil 2Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1877 |
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14 miles Admiralty chart anchor anchorage beacon buoy cable off shore cape Wrath castle channel CHAP cliff coast depth direction distance Dubh eastern side eastward Eigg Eilean Eilean Glas entrance of loch fathoms feet above high feet high feet water flood stream full and change half a cable half a mile harbour head high water high-water indentation island Islay Kerrera knots Kyle Akin lies lighthouse Little Minch loch Alsh loch Fyne loch Torridon low water low-water rocks mile broad miles in length Mull narrow neaps nearly a cable north end north point north side north-east north-west northward Ornsay outer patch pier Pladda quarter Raasay rocks extend rocky round Rudha Sanda island Scarba Sgeir shoal small vessels sound sound of Mull south end South Rona south shore south side south-east south-west southward springs rise steep-to tide West loch Tarbert west side western westward whilst winds
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Seite 215 - It is elevated 29 feet above high water, and is visible in clear weather from a distance of (5 miles.
Seite 237 - Garcia island, is exhibited at an elevation of 141 feet above the level of the river,'& fixed white light, which should be visible in clear weather from a distance of 14 miles.
Seite 134 - The light is a fixed white light, elevated about 43 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 12 miles. The light-tower is cylindrical, and is built on the platform of the above fortress. Its position is given ns latitude 5° 45' S., longitude 35° 13' 15
Seite 162 - The lighthouse exhibits at 264 feet above the sea a revolving white light, attaining its greatest brilliancy every minute, and visible in clear weather 22 miles.
Seite 155 - A vast archway of nearly seventy feet in height, supporting a massive entablature of thirty feet additional, and receding for about 230 feet inwards — the entire front, as well as the great cavernous sides, being composed of countless complicated ranges of gigantic columns, beautifully jointed, and of most symmetrical though somewhat varied forms; the roof itself exhibiting a rich grouping of overhanging pillars, some of snowy whiteness from the calcareous covering by which they have become encrusted...
Seite 44 - The light is elevated 228 feet above high water, and should be seen in clear weather from a distance of 23 miles.
Seite 257 - This mountain is covered by a dense forest, with the exception of a level spot of about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width...
Seite 168 - E. ; it will be elevated 54 foot above high water, and should be seen in clear weather from a distance of 14 miles.
Seite 85 - Sgeir-i-Noe in the Little Minch off the west coast of Scotland the flood-stream often takes the buoys of the long lines down "and it is a remarkable circumstance, indicative of the great depth of the...
Seite 84 - The electric light will be elevated 100 feet above the sea, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of 16 miles.