In recharring the marginal seas {they have also renamed withy Chinese names many of the points that have fnitherto borne purely arbitrary foreign names. The old names are ar more convenient if native names were adopted. Thus House Island becomes /Heng-Sha, Blockhouse Island becomes J¥a-Wo-Sha, Grass Island becomes Yuan-Yuan-Sha, and s0 on.
Another innovation has been the naming of the channels to the north ud south of the Tungsha Shoal, the North Fork and the South Fork. The, JSouth Fork is the more used by big Jships, though the North Fork is the Jdeqper. It was originally proposed to Jdredge the South from near the Kiutoan Spit light about ten miles to-Jwards the Feirway Bell Buoy—a [gigantic task. It has now been decid-Jed to dredge a channel of about two mites just to the north of the Kiutoan JSpit Buoy from the deeper water of the ebb-tide scour in the present Jehannel into the deeper water of the North Fork. When this is done the biggest of ships should be able to Jcome sip to Woosung every high tide.
As things are at present, a ship the size of the Empress of Britain, draw-Ing 34 feet, can come up only on six Jéays in a' month, and then during Jonly four hours of each day, wien the tides are exceptionally high. With the new channel it should be possible for her to come up any day of the month, without much difficulty.
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