Buoy

A piece of wood, or an emptg rel, or other iiiin_r. moored at a particular place and floating on the wafo w the place where it is shallow, to mark the channel, or to indicate the danger there is to navigation. The act of congress approved the 28th September, 1850, enacts that all buoys shall be. so colored and lettered that in passing up the coast or up a harbor, red buoys with even numbers shall be on the right, black buoys with uneven numbers on the left aud with red and black stripes on either hand. In channels with alternate black and white stripes.