The light will be a red flashing light, showing a flash and an eclipse alternately of ten seconds duration; it will be elevated 90 feet above the sea, and should be seen 12 miles.

The tower is built of stone, and 82 feet high. Position, lat. 48° 18′ 40′′ N., long. 4° 55′ W.

NOTE.-Mariners are cautioned that the rock on which the lighthouse is built is not the outermost of the group, as rocks extend S.W. nearly 3 cables from the light.

16.-FRANCE.-West Coast.-Guilfinec Harbour.-Two leading lights for entering the harbour are established on the eastern side of the harbour.

The upper light is a fixed red light elevated 50 feet above the sea, visible through an arc of 14 degrees on each side of the centre of the channel, and in the line of the centre of the channel should be seen 9 miles, decreasing to 6 miles to 10 degrees on either side.

The lower light is 620 yards W. by S. S. from the upper light; it is also a fixed red light, elevated 19 feet above the sea, and should be seen 6 miles.

17.-DUTCH AND FRENCH GUYANA. — Maroni River. — Fixed white lights are now exhibited on the points on both sides of the entrance of Maroni river; they are 75 feet above the sea and should be seen 13 miles. The approximate positions are lat. 5° 43' N., long. 53° 58' W., and lat. 5° 42' 30", long. 53° 56′ 20′ W.

NOTE. To enter the Maroni river by day, keep the outer buoy and the Dutch lighthouse on the west side of the entrance in a line, and on reaching the inner buoy steer for Point Panato.

18.-GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE.-Miramichi Bay.-Beacon lights are now exhibited in the following positions, viz. :—

Two beacon lights at Hucklebury. The outer or N.W. light, from a building erected for the purpose; the inner light from the east end of a white barn, which, to distinguish it, has a black band painted down the centre of the roof. Both lights are fixed white lights. The black band and the outer beacon, by day, leads across the outer bar to the Lump buoy. By night the two lights should be kept in line.

Two fixed white lights on Oak point, one situated on the point, the other to the eastward of it. The Narrows buoy lies with the two beacon lights

in a line.

A fixed white light is shown from each of the beacons to the westward of Malcolm point, in the river.

19.-SWEDEN.-Kattegat. Skrifvereklippen.-The light is now exhibited on this rock at the entrance of Warberg harbour. The light is an alternating red and white light. Position, lat. 57° 6' N., long. 12° 13′ E.

20.-DENMARK.-The Sound.-Hveen Island.-The light, a flashing white light with short eclipses, is now exhibited on the north-west point of the island in lat. 55° 55' N., long. 12° 40′ E,

21.-NORWAY.-Christiania Fiord.-Digerhovedet.-A light has been established on this point on the east side of the fiord. The light is a fixed red and white light, visible from the bearing S.S.E. round by east to N. W. It is red between N. E. to N.E. E., and the remainder white.

Position, lat. 59° 43′ 30 N., long. 10° 35' 45' E.

The light will be exhibited from the 15th July in one year to the 15th May in the next, except during the winter season.

NOTE.-Vessels drawing not more than 11 feet water can pass close to the westward of the lighthouse, but those of greater draught should not approach within half a cable.

22.-CEYLON.-Point de Galle.-The wreck of the steamship Rangoon now lies in 15 fathoms water, S. W. W., one and a half miles from the lighthouse on Point de Galle. As the vessel is built of iron it is likely to last for some time, and while her masts stand, to be an obstruction to navigation.

23.-MEDITERRANEAN.-Italy.-Torre del' Annunziata.-A red light suspended from a mast is exhibited from the extremity of the West Mole, 33 ft. above the sea, and should be seen 2 miles. Position, lat. 40° 45′ N., long. 14° 27' E.

24.—MEDITERRANEAN.—Italy.—Giannutri Island.—A fixed red light, 312 ft. above the sea, is exhibited from the southern hillock of the island, and should be seen 10 miles. Position, lat. 42o 14' N., long. 11° 6' E.

25.-UNITED STATES.-Connecticut.—Bridgeport Harbour.-The lighthouse has been rebuilt, 83 yards to the southward of the old site, at the entrance of the harbour. The light, as before, is a fixed red light, of the fourth order, elevated 56 feet above the sea, and should be seen 13 miles. The tower is painted white. In thick or foggy weather, a bell will be struck by machinery at intervals of fifteen seconds.

NOTE.-The lighthouse must be passed to the castward.

26.-UNITED STATES.-Long Island.-Gardiner Bay.-A fixed red light of the fifth order is now exhibited from a screw pile lighthouse on Long Beach Bar, entrance to Orient and Greenport Harbours, Gardiner Bay. The light is elevated 56 feet above the sea, and should be seen 13 miles. The tower stands in 5 feet water, is painted white, and the piles red. Position, lat. 41° 6' 20' N., long. 72° 17′ 50′′ W. In thick or foggy weather, a bell will be struck by machinery at intervals of fifteen seconds,

27.—UNITED STATES.-Mississipi Sound.-Cat Island.-A fifth order fixed and flashing light, showing a flash every minute and a half, is now exhibited from a screw pile lighthouse on the west end, in lat. 30o 14' N., long. 89° 8' 45 W., it is elevated 45 feet, and should be seen 11 miles.

28.-UNITED STATES.-Maine.-Cape Elizabeth.-The following alteration has been made in the fog signal, viz. :-The steam whistle will give

two blasts of five seconds' duration each, with an interval of eight seconds between them, followed by a pause of forty-two seconds, in each minute.

29.-JAPAN.-Nipon.-Iro-o-saki (Cape Idsa).-A fixed red light of the sixth order, elevated 185 feet above the sea, has been established; it should be seen 8 miles. Position, lat. 34° 36' N., long. 138° 51' E.

SIGNALS AT THE SKAGEN LIGHTHOUSES.
(NOTICE No. 4.)

THE Danish Government has given notice, that in order to indicate that one or more of the light-vessels in the Kattegat, either from the state of the ice, or from some other reason, have left their stations, the following signals will be shown during the time the vessel is away from her station :

By Day.-On a mast, with a yard attached and raised on the top of the old lighthouse of Skagen, which stands nearly a mile W. by S. from the new lighthouse.

The old lighthouse of Skagen, seen from the North.

1. A ball on the mast above the yard, when the Trundelen lightvessel is not in her station.

2. Two balls at the eastern yard arm when the Kobberground light-vessel is not in her station.

3. A ball at the quarter of the eastern yard when the Knoben light-vessel is not in her station.

4. Two balls at the western yard arm when the Læso channel light-vessel is not in her station.

Also, from the 1st January, 1872:

By Night from an auxiliary light station on the northern side of the new lighthouse of Skagen, and 62 feet above the level of the sea, there will be exhibited :

1. A red light when the Læso channel light-vessel is not in her station.

2. A green light when the Trundelen light-vessel is not in her station.

3. A white light when the Læso channel light-vessel and the Trundelen light-vessel are not in their stations.

The white auxiliary light should be seen in clear weather about 9 miles, and the coloured lights about 5 miles, in a northerly direction, and decreasing on both sides to about 60°.

ICE SIGNALS.

WHEN the state of the ice at the stations of Vinga-Skaergaard, Elsinore, Sæby, and of Frederikshavn is such as to impede the navigation at those stations, the following signals will be shown, by means of black tables, hung out beneath the gallery on the white painted surface on the northern side of the new lighthouse of Skagen :

Signal apparatus upon the lighthouse of Skagen.