3.


All appendices taken from the first edition of the Yangtze Pilot. circa 1910.




Charts on the largest scale always to be used. - It sometimes happens that, from press of work, only the copper plate of the larger scale chart of a particular locality can at once receive any extensive re-arrangement of coastline or soundings. This is an additional reason, besides the obvious one of the greater detail shown, why this largest scale chart should always be used for navigating.