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( Umoatched). Tides. In port de la Hougue it is high water, full and change, at 8h. 53m. ; ordinary springs rise 19 feet, neaps 14^ feet, or 3 feet in excess of these heights above chart zero. La Hougue roadstead affords good shelter from winds between S. S. W. And N. W. , but not from those in the N. N. E. To S. S. E. Quarters ; which, when blowing moderately, produce only an unpleasant roughness of the sea, but when with any force, a very heavy sea. The ground holds well. On the east side of ...the roadstead, and just within the bank of St. Marcouf, is a long narrow shoal known as the Bane de la Rade, upon which the depth is 3 to 4 fathoms, except near the centre, where it is not more than If fathoms. About H miles E. By N. From fort La Hougue, and a short distance eastward of St. Vaast, is the small islet Tatihou, with its fort. This islet is rocky all round, and has a dangerous ledge extending fully three-fourths of a mile south- ward from it, between which and the north end of the Bane de la Rade is the N.
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