Note on Navigating the Strait of Belle Isle. By Admiral H. W. Notes on a Journey across the Andes, in Peru. By E. D. Ashe, Occasional Papers of the Nautical Club, 38, 95, 146, 210, 267, 330, On Mechanical Invention in its Relation to the Improvement of Naval On the Manning and Officering of the British Navy, 519 On the Officering of the Royal Navy and Merchant Service, 595 Our Coast-Line and its Changes. By S. M. Saxby, Esq., R.N., 427 Particulars of Lights Recently Established, 102, 165, 218, 397, 566, Port Blair, Andaman Islands, as a Refuge in Foul Weather, 510 Remarks on Different Anchorages, &c., in the Strait of Magellan, while Employed in Verifying the Position of a Supposed Shoal between the First and Second Narrows. By Mr. G. Reid, Master, Remarks on the Defective Explanation given in the "Nautical Al- manac" for 1861. By James Gordon, M.A., 368; for 1864, 649 Report on the French Imperial Navy. By M. de la Tour, of the Submarine Volcanic Action in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Equator, Superstitions and Customs Common among the Indians in the Valley Testimonial to Captain Cracroft, of H.M.S. "Niger," 549 The Bar of the Quilimane River-When to Cross it, 34 The British Association for the Advancement of Science,-Address The Channel Islands and their Defences, 423 The Coral Reef and Great Barrier Reefs,-Showing the Inner and The Danube,-Sulina Mouth, 342 The Feejee Islanders-Their Religion, Laws, Manners, and Customs, 257 The Lunar Eclipse, Journal of a Voyage from Quebec to Labrador, viâ New York. By Lieutenant E. D. Ashe, R.N., Director of the The Merchant Service Afloat,-Lloyd's and Underwriters,-Owners The Recent Voyage of H.M.S. "Bulldog," Captain Sir F. L. M'Clin- tock, for Deep Sea Soundings, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. Report to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, 74 The Reefs of Pernambuco, 345 The Replenishing the Lower Ranks of the Navy from the Mercantile The Royal and Mercantile Services, 399 The Spanish Coast between Adra and Almeria, 612 The Strait of Banka Completely Described. By Mr. W. Stanton, R.N., Commanding H.M.S. "Saracen," 80 The Strait of Belle Isle: As to its Eligibility for Navigation in the The Strength of Iron Ships. By J. Grantham, Esq., Memb. Council The Summer Palace of the Chinese Emperors, 91 The Viper Shoal, China Sea, 220 The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860, 589 Third Trip of the "Morning Star" to Micronesia, 105 Time from the Sun's Altitude, 386 Whaling Adventures in the Pacific. By L. H. Vermilyea, 248 Winds and Currents on the Coasts of Japan, 57 Wrongs of the Merchant Service Afloat, 225 THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE AND Naval Chronicle JANUARY, 1861. THE LATE ECLIPSE,-Journal of a Voyage from Quebec to Labrador, viâ New York. By Lieutenant E. D. Ashe, R.N., Director of the Observatory at Quebec. Having heard that an American Expedition was about to visit Cape Chidley, the northern point of Labrador, for the purpose of observing the total eclipse of the sun on July 18th, 1860, I made application to the Hon. Minister of Finance for an appropriation to enable me to join it, and a sum was granted for that purpose. Sir Edmund Head, Governor-General of British North America, wrote to our Ambassador at Washington, Lord Lyons, and the result was that I received a most kind invitation to join the American Expedition either at New York or at Sydney, C.B., with the understanding that I should be incorporated with the American astronomers, and that my observations should be given to them. All things being now arranged, I made up my mind to join the expedition at New York instead of meeting it at Sydney, and on Saturday the 23rd of June I left Quebec by the morning train. Not feeling particularly well, and rather unmanned by leaving my wife, in true sailor fashion, in tears on the beach as the ferry boat left * It is but justice to note that our Government were more considerate than to admit of this here, as several ladies, it is very well known, were of the astronomical party in the Himalaya. And had the American astronomers been aware of it, the Bibb would surely have been large enough for her visitors, however small she might have been.-ED. NO. 1.-VOL. XXX. B |