[Sidenote: Winds.]
[Sidenote: Melville Point.]
[Sidenote: Teu-choo-foo city.]
The wind was south-east and quite light, from the 11th August to the 17th, when it shifted to north north-east till about eight P.M. when close in shore near the southern of the two islands; it then blew off, with all the appearance of a regular land breeze. On the 19th it blew a gale of wind from the north-east, with a short, high sea; during the gale we lay at anchor off a remarkable point, connected with the main land by a low sandy neck; the ground felt soft to the lead, but it was probably rocky under the mud, as both ships lost a bower anchor by the cables being cut. This point lies in 37º 42' north, and 2º 35' east of the Pei-ho. We found the city of Teu-choo-foo to lie in 3º 4' east of the Pei-ho. The latitude observed in Teu-choo-foo roads was 37º 53' north, and the longitude 2º 54' east of the Pei-ho. The western Meadow Island bearing north.
[Sidenote: Cheatow Bay.]
The latitude of a small island at the north-east corner of the Bay of Cheatow or Zee-a-tow, was determined by the sun's meridian altitude on shore, to be 37º 35' 52" north, and longitude east of the Pei-ho 3º 45', or in 121º 34' east of Greenwich.
[Sidenote: Oei-hai-oei.]
The latitude of Oei-hai-oei was observed on shore to be 37º 30' 40" north, and lies 4º 25' east of the Pei-ho.
[Sidenote: Variation of the compass.]
The variation of the compass in the Yellow Sea was found to be 2º 16' westerly.