To the Editor of the "Nontu-CutNa Datty News."
Sit,—The main lights of the China Coast are plentiful and efficient, the smaller lights around the entrances {to Ports are considerably less #0, to enumerate a fey, at Chefoo, there is no light further seaward than Keung Kung" Tao, an' excellent' light make as! a landfall, but not. to clear the spit South of the slond should Tower Hill Light be obscured by smoke, as is fre: there is merely" an" unlighted' spar boy, a small Tight stinlar tothe Breakwater Lights might with advantage be. piaeed.on Sentry, Rock tao trid x Light buoy on the before Ientioned spit, at. We-ha Tight might with advantage be placed Outer inland. ay the Sonora Very narrow, and. Plagstaft Point Light not by' any means excellent.
Tt, ig generally agreed upon by Masters both of ocean. and. coast Seaniers that the estuary of the Yangtze is one of the most dificult places to make in any' part if the World, "exceptionally strong and tides, shallows, poor and low ity. the vale rather. than the exception, and the' present lights, North Saddle, Gutzlait and Shaweitangles in the fast dangerous parts of the apreach and also at such a distance rom each other that the "Coeked Hav" problem invariably presents
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