Depth of Water in Inner Harbour.

Depth of Water Inside The Breakwaters and at the Wharves varies from 19 feet up to 25 feet at low tide. The Inner Harbour is still being father deepened by dredging, so that vessels drawing 25 feet may be berthed inside the moles [unclear: a] any time of the tide. The rise of tide is about 7 feet. Vessels up to 5000 tons can now [unclear: e] safely berthed at several of the wharves; as instancing this, the steamers Catalonia and British King were loaded to respective draughts of water of 25ft. 9in. and 24ft. 6in., [unclear: t] two of the existing Jetties, and steamed out of the Inner Harbour without the slightest difficulty.