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been done by Commander AUdridge, whom I have the pleasure to 

 acknowledge as a pupil of my own, in the river Dee, and in other 

 places; by Mr. E. K. Calver in the Orwell and Tyne; and by 

 Captain Williams in the Fal ; while at the same time the progress 

 of the tide wave, marked by the successive times of high water, 

 has been carefully recorded, and the results have been of much 

 assistance to the civil engineer. 



England. — I learn from our able and zealous hydrographer, Capt. 

 Washington, r.n., that on the south of England, Lieutenant Cox and 

 Mr.Usborne have mapped the coast from the Bill of Portland westward 

 to Golden Head, including the remarkable shingle beaches of Abbots- 

 bury and the Chesil Bank, and have made a detailed plan of the 

 harbour of Bridport. They have now begun a careful examination 

 of Plymouth Sound, the result of which must be looked forward to 

 with much interest, as it will show what eifect the breakwater has 

 had upon that anchorage, during the forty years that have elapsed 

 since the stone of that structure first raised its head above the level 

 of low water. 



In Cornwall, Captain G. Williams and Mr, Wells have completed 

 the thirty miles of coast between Fowey and Falmouth, with plans 

 on a large scale of the harbours of Pentuan and Mevagissey, the 

 latter so valuable to our pilchard fishery. 



In the Bristol Channel, Commander AUdridge and Mr. D. Hall 

 have produced an excellent plan of the rivers Taw and Torridge, 

 leading up to Barnstaple and Bideford on the north coast of Devon. 

 Their last year's work, namely, the plans of Milford Haven, with 

 Pembroke Beach, on the scales, respectively^ of 4 inches and 12 

 inches to a mile, have been published at the Admiralty. 



Farther north the channels and shoals at the entrance of the Sol way 

 Firth have been re-examined, and the charts have been corrected 

 for the material changes, which have occurred during the last twenty 

 years, since this Firth was originally surveyed. 



A new edition of Part I. of the Channel Pilot, comprising the 

 entrance of the Channel and the coast of England as far as the 

 Downs, has been compiled by Mr. J. W. King, Master r.n., and 

 published at the Admiralty. Part II., which will contain the north 

 coast of France, from Grisnez to Ushant, is well advanced. 



Scotland, — The remarkably broken outline and indented shores of 

 the Western Highlands of Scotland, embracing picturesque fiords 

 and lochs, afford constant occupation for a large force of survejors. 

 Commanders Bedford and Creyke are employed in Argyllshire ; and 



