The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

GRAHAM'S SHOAL.

The Malta Times contains the following account
of Graham's Shoal, as recently surveyed :
" H.M.S. the Argus, Capt. Ingram, has returned to
Malta, after effecting a careful survey of the sup-
posed site of Graham's Shoal, which has long been a.
source of much anxiety to commerce. The Argus
left Malta for tiis operation on the 29th ult., steer-
ing for' Girgenti for the purpose of rating her
chronometers, and arrived there on the 31st. She
started thence in a direct line for Graham's Shoal,
as laid down in the Admiralty charts, and reached
the supposed site in the evening. The first so
She
ings gave 99 fathoms with a muddy
'steam,
to half
sounding at intervals of from ten minutes.
then proceeded as slowly as possible
the soundings
an hour, altering her course as
was hazy and
in-
creased or decreased. The weather
visible. She continued steang
no signs of coast
al
night, dropping them ad
on a N.N.W. course
daylight she found herself
gotild oe r
every half hour.
about six miles off
rather unexpectedly. Mazzara, a
having driven her in this direction
strong current hav
owing to her frequent stoppages.
The least
depth found so far was 64 fathoms. A straight
n steered for Granitola d
course was the an arrive
off that place at eight a.m. on the 2d. Sha then.
steered direct for the shoal again, and at noon.
arrived at the spot as found by astronomical b
o ser-
vation. No bottom was found with a
line of 105
fathoms. Soundings were
continued at short in-
tervals till noon next day, the vessel advancing
at the slowest possible pace. The least depth of
water, 22 fathont; was found at 9
according to sights obtained p.m. ; and this,
occurred in latitude
37 deg. 4m. N., longitude 12 deg. 4Sm. E., be-
tween Merita Patch and T '1)1 k Onthe
3d, e- an .
3d, the weather b •
eing threatening, she bore up for
Girgenti and re • till
mained there 5 a.m. on the 6th,
when, the weather
having moderated, she returned
to the shoal. At 11,30 a.m. the marks on shore
indicating the exact position of the shoal, 100
fathoms were sounded, and no bottom found. The
soundings were continued, with depths ranging
from 26 to 150 fathoms, till the afternoon of the
7th, when the Argus put into Mecca to make in-
quiries of the fishermen there. On the same even-
ing she again proceeded to the scene of operations
and continued sounding till the 9th, the depths
varying from 30 to 150 fathoms. As the weather
was getting rough the Argus then bore up for
Malta, and arrived there on the 10th. The Gir-
genti fishermen consider that there is a depth of
20 fathoms on the shoal, whilst the Sciacca fisher-
men say 40 fathoms ; the latter also stated that btaucT
shoal consisted of cinders and scoriae,whictd
heno
been gradually dispersing and had presents The
t.
danger to shipping for three years,
soundings,
bottom, as found by Capt. Ingram s
Consists of sand, shells, and cinders scattered among
coral bads."

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years of ag-e, in the service of it woman named Gravel, a
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answer created some surprise and lost timer, This
mother, after complaining that laughter. The boy's
allowed her son enough to cat, offered Mine. Gravel had not
and prayed that the boy might to pay for the goose,
had previously been accuSc l be discharged; but, as he
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