The old red No. 2, Blockhouse Shoal (No, 27 in the 1878 List of Chinese Lights), 6 feet in diameter a: the line, and surmounted by a black spherical cage, has been moored in five fathoms 4 tides, with the Kin. toan Lighthouse bearing S. 8° 30° magnetic, and distant sbout 2.9 nautical miles. It marks the S.W. edge of " bank, dry at low water and only one cable to the eastward of it, and has no number painted on it.
sy order of the Inapector-General of Customs, DAVID M. HENDERSON, Engineer-in-chief. ime Customs, Slanghal, 27
April, 1078, 9709 Lmy
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