Sand Island Lighthouse is not more than a quarter of a mile from the middle of the channel, and at that point the course changes.

Perhaps the pilot can make out the lighthouse in the fog.

If he don't he will run into five or six feet of water in a few minutes, out of eight fathoms or more." "I suppose you are prepared to let go the towline if anything goes wrong, Mr.Passford ?" added the engineer, perhaps as a suggestion rather than as a question.
"I hope it will not come to that, for the schooner might get aground on the Knoll before we could make sail," replied Christy.
"The steamer has shifted her helm," said Graines, to the great relief of the lieutenant.

"The fog is lifting again, and the pilot must have seen the lighthouse.

We are headed more to the eastward now." "The course is south by west, three-quarters west, when the lighthouse bears west by south.