THE FRENCH PASS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 127, 28 November 1881, Page 2

THE FRENCH PASS.

"•" TO THB EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST. Sib— Wh'le the risk recently encountared by the passengers on board the s.s. Penguin, owing to that vessel stranding in the Fremch Pass, ia fresh in the mind 3 of the public, I think it pertinent to sngge3t what I consider an easy and not very expansive means of lessening the formidable, though somewhat overrated, difficulties of navigation attending that part of the coast. As the route by the French Pass will continue) to be used, in spite of its difficulties, by coastal steamers trading to Nelson, I would Bugeesl; that the reef extending nearly the -whole way across the passaere be blown away, which I think, in theae daya of dynamite and other explosives, would not be at all a difficult matter— to say at least to the sea level at dead low water, sprin? tides, and perhaps some feet below even that. This would very much lessen the ru3h of tide through the ship channel 50 soon as the rocks became covered, and thereby materially lessen the difficulties of navigation. I imagine a thousand pounds, judiciously laid out, wonld obtain the desired result. Throwing out thi3 crude hint for the benefit of whom it may concern, I am, &c, An Old Steamboat Skippke.