The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-02 00:00:00

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

BLACK SEA.-KAZATCH AND KAMIESH BAYS, CHER-
SONESB.
Hydographic Office, Admiralty, London,
Jan. 27, 1855.

Several vessels with troops and stores bound for Kazatch
and Kamiesh Bays, on the north side of Cape Chersonese,
having been stranded, or endangered, by striking upon the
shoals extending off the coast, through incautiously ap-
proaching the shore, and owing to neglect of, the existing
charts and sailing directions, the following temporary
notice is published for the guidance of the mariner :
In rounding Cape Khersonese from the southward, keep
Cape Feolent, a high perpendicular cliff, open of a nearer
and lower bluff, until the lighthouse on the cape bears E.
by S. S., or Fort Constantine is seen open of the north
coast of the peninsula. Then an E.N.E. N. course will
round the cape and all the shoal water off the points, none
of the rocky ledges extending mere than 2i cables off
shore.

Dveinaia (Double), or Kasatch (Cossack), and Kamiesh
(Reed's') BAvc. fOIUI the nrst Larger opening to she eastward
of the cape. There is anchorage in from 15 to 20 fathoms,
at a distance of a a mile off the entrance, on a bottom of
muddy sand, where a stranger should bring up or lie to,
until communicated with by the guard-boat.
In entering Kazatch or Kamiesh Bays tho N.W. point,
and the middle point which separates them (which may
now be recognised by an earth battery upon it), should not
be approached nearer than 2i cables' lengths. And no
vessel should run up the western or Kazatch Bay without
a pilot, for this double bay, which looks clear anal wide
from outside, has a reef of sunken rocks, extending three
cables' distance in a north direction from the tongue of
land which divides the head of the bay into two parts.
The channel on either side of this sunken reef is only
from to of a cable's length wide ; has a depth of from
7 to 9 fathoms, with a bottom of stiff sandy mud ; as also
in the upper part of Kamiesh Bay. In the outer part o
these bays the ground is' less tenacious, being a muddy
sand with gravel and shells ; and no anchor will hold in a
less depth than 7 fathoms.
As a general rule none of the points on the north side of
the Chersonese Peninstla should be approached nearer
than 2i cables' distance.
The south coast of the peninsula is steep too ; Cape
Fooled; is a high perpendicular cliff, black ai its lower
part, but capped by a white calcareous stratum that in-
clines gradually to Cape Cherson, which is low, the base
of the lighthouse at its extremity being only a few feet
feet above the sea level.

The light now shown at Cape Chersonese is a fixed pale
light, instead of revolving as formerly ; it stands at an
elevation of 116 feet abose the sea, but is not visible
beyond a distance of about seven miles.
All courses and bearings aie magnetic.

WHAIR'S-BACK LIGHTS, BNTRANCE TO PORTSMOUTH, N.H.
Portlend Maine, Dec. 20, 1854.
On or about the Ist day of June next (1855), the present
lower light, exhibited from the Whale's-back Lighthouse
at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, N.H., will be dis-
continued, and there will be substituted at the same time
for the present upper fixed light, a axed light, varied by
flashes, of the fourth order of tie system of Fresnel.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1855.