'OTICE is hereby given that the Light on Bonham Island was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 12th instant.
The illuminating apparatus is Revolving Dioptric of the Third Order showing alternate red and white flashes at intervals of half a minute, Between the bearings S, 14° 41' W. and 47° 30' W. the Light is obscured by the high land of Bonham island, and to the northward and eastward of Elliot, Raffles and Senhouse islands it is also obscured from 8. 12° 2 K. to S. 82° 16' W., with the exception of rays between S. 11° 24° E. and S. 10° 36' E.; between S. 9° 21' EH, and S. 0° 44' E,; between S. 1° 31' W. and 3° 19" W. and between 8. 50° 5' W. and 8. 60° 11' W.
The bearings are magnetic and from seaward, The Lighthow situated on the southern shoulder of th island: and the light, which is sea, should be round, of iron, 25 feet height from its base to of 47 feet. tower is painted in red and white horizontal bands; the dwellings are white, Approximate position Latitude... 90° 87/21" N, Longitude... 122° 25' 44"
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