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... plate . A sketch of the middle ground at the entrance of the Chesapeake has been prepared and pub- lished . SECTION IV . Coast of part of Virginia and of North Carolina . - Six parties have been employed in this section during part of ...
... plate . A sketch of the middle ground at the entrance of the Chesapeake has been prepared and pub- lished . SECTION IV . Coast of part of Virginia and of North Carolina . - Six parties have been employed in this section during part of ...
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... plate of the chart of Bull's bay , on the coast of South Carolina , northeast of Charleston har- bor , is in process of re - engraving . ( See sketch E , No. 6. ) The chart of North Edisto river and harbor of refuge is put in hand for ...
... plate of the chart of Bull's bay , on the coast of South Carolina , northeast of Charleston har- bor , is in process of re - engraving . ( See sketch E , No. 6. ) The chart of North Edisto river and harbor of refuge is put in hand for ...
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... plates have resulted , the present year , from this entirely new class of duties ; a fact in itself significant both of the amount of duty and the efficiency of the survey , both in the field and office . " To Samuel Hein , esq . , the ...
... plates have resulted , the present year , from this entirely new class of duties ; a fact in itself significant both of the amount of duty and the efficiency of the survey , both in the field and office . " To Samuel Hein , esq . , the ...
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... plate has again been reproduced from the junction of plates with complete success . " The time for reproducing a plate has been greatly abridged . Time has been saved , and a greater certainty given to the process , by a heating ...
... plate has again been reproduced from the junction of plates with complete success . " The time for reproducing a plate has been greatly abridged . Time has been saved , and a greater certainty given to the process , by a heating ...
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... plates will require three to four years ' work of an en- graver , and will cost from three to six thousand dollars ... plate printing press , has been devised by Mr. Saxton , and is now in the course of construction under his direction ...
... plates will require three to four years ' work of an en- graver , and will cost from three to six thousand dollars ... plate printing press , has been devised by Mr. Saxton , and is now in the course of construction under his direction ...
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A. D. BACHE APPENDIX Back azimuth battery Bayou Beach Beacon Hill Bluff buoys Cape Fear Cape Henlopen Cat Island Cedar keys Cedar Point channel Charleston chart Church Coast Survey COAST SURVEY OFFICE Coast Survey.-Geographical Positions Columbia river connexion coral Cove Creek curve Distance Dorchester Heights electrotype engraving entrance examination fathoms Florida Hammock harbor Hatteras hydrographic parties hydrography inlet Island Sound Kent Island Key West Latitude Lieut Lieutenant Commanding light light-boat light-house Longitude maps McBlair McSparran Hill Metres Mount Prospect Name of station Nantucket navigation Neck observations Observatory Passed midshipman placed plate Point 39 Powderhorn range Recommended reconnaissance reef report of Lieutenant respectfully Rock San Diego sand Savannah season secondary triangulation Secretary Section II.-Long Island shoals shore Signal Sketch South Spire steamer sub-assistant Superintendent U. S. Coast tidal tides tion topography Treasury triangulation U. S. Coast Survey United States Coast United States navy vessels Washington western coast Woodhull Yards
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Page 510 - That the successful reconnaissance of the western coast of the United States, from Monterey to Columbia river, and the preliminary survey of the entrance to the Columbia — accomplished under the most peculiar and extraordinary difficulties — while they are proofs of his unconquerable energy, determination and skill, have forever identified the name of Wm. P. McArthur with the progress of the republic in the West. 3. Resolved, That we most sincerely sympathize with the bereaved and afflicted family...
Page 143 - Extracts from the report of Professor Agassiz to the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, on the examination of the Florida reefs, keys, and coast.
Page 38 - An act to found a military asylum for the relief and support of invalid and disabled soldiers of the Army of the United States...
Page 447 - That hereafter in all new light-houses, and in all light-houses requiring new lighting apparatus, and in all light-houses as yet unsupplied with illuminating apparatus, the lens or Fresnel system shall be adopted, if, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the public interest will be subserved thereby.
Page 555 - Pot rock once removed, Hell Gate would be less dangerous by one-half, and the eddies, which are now the cause of half the difficulties, would in a measure disappear.
Page 447 - Stales, and make a general detailed report and programme to guide legislation in extending and improving our present system of construction, illumination, inspection, and superintendence: but no additional compensation shall be allowed any person serving on said board.
Page 495 - Survey. AD BACHE, LL. D., Superintendent Coast Survey. APPENDIX No. 33. Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey to the Secretary of the Treasury, in regard to the expediency of placing buoys in Mosquito inlet, Florida, and transmitting the report of Lieutenant Commanding John Rodgcrs, United States navy, cusistani in the coast survey.
Page 131 - Placing the maximum of the semi-diurnal curve at 0 hours, in the hypothesis that the high water of the diurnal curve is nine hours in advance of that of the semi-diurnal curve, the two curves cross the line of mean water at three hours, the diurnal curve rising and the semi-diurnal falling ; at six hours, the semidiurnal curve has reached its maximum, and rises again at nine hours to its intersection with the mean...
Page 148 - Here and there a few heads or large patches, or even extensive flats of corals, reach the level of low-water mark, and may occasionally be seen above the surface of the waters, when the sea is more agitated than by the simple action of the tides. In other places coral sands or loose fragments of corals, larger or smaller boulders, detached from lower parts of the living reef, are thrown upon its dying summits, and thus form the first accumulation of solid materials, rising permanently above low-water...
Page 446 - Treasury shall designate shall report, in any of the cases herein provided for, that preliminary surveys are necessary to determine the site of a proposed light-house or light-boat, beacon or buoy, or to ascertain more fully what the public exigency demands, the Secretary of the Treasury shall...