...full-rigged brig struck it three days since, and went down with a valuable cargo on board." This obstruction once removed, Hell Gate would be less dangerous by...half the difficulties, would in a measure disappear." I have quoted as above Lieutenant Commanding Porter, United States navy, for the purpose of saying...

...days since, and went down with a valuable cargo on board. This obstruction once removed, Hell-Gate would be less dangerous by one-half, and the eddies,...the difficulties, would, in a measure, disappear. * * » '•There is ad:ingi-rous rock, called ' Bald-headed Billy,' fifteen yards from Hatter's Dfwk,...

...down with a valuable c-irgo on board. This obstruction once removed, Hell-Gate would be less dangeroas by one-half, and the eddies, which are now the cause...half the difficulties would, in a measure, disappear. * * * " Opposite ' Gibb's Point,' and within fifty yards of Blackwell's Island, i« a large rock, which...

...hit the rock itself) which were thrown within its influence ; while it prevents that rapid eddy, or return current, which formerly existed, and which...feet in length, and thirty feet in average width. Before blasting, the least depth extended over a surface six feet square, while the average depth (vide...