May 28, 18G0.] ADMIRALTY SURVEYS— SCOTLAND. 147 



miles. In this vicinity a chart of the coast of Wales, from St. 

 Ann's Head to St. Bride's Bay, including Broad Sound, a plan of 

 the port of Bridgewater, and Barnstaple and Bideford Creeks, on 

 the scales respectively of 3J-, 2-J, and 1 J inches to a mile, all by 

 Commander Alldridge and his staff, have been published at the 

 Admiralty during the past year. Between the Bristol Channel and 

 the Solway Firth Mr. E. K. Calver, k.n., with his assistants Messrs. 

 Inskip and Davison, has revised the charts and prepared for publi- 

 cation the sailing directions of the West Coast. The plan of Holy- 

 head Eefuge Harbour, sounded by Mr. Calver last year, has recently 

 been published at the Admiralty on the scale of 12 inches "to the 

 nautic mile. 



Scotland. — In Argyleshire Commander Bedford, with his assistants, 

 Commander Creyke and Mr. Bourchier, r.n., have completed the 

 survey of Mull, including the soundings of Lochs na Keal, Scrie- 

 dan, and Buy ; also of Loch Etive on the Main, and about 20 miles 

 of Linnhe Loch leading to the Caledonian Canal. In mentioning 

 the names of these officers at the last Anniversary, it was acci- 

 dentally omitted to be stated that, during the autumn of 1858, they, 

 at the instance of the Eefuge Harbours Commission, re- surveyed 

 Peterhead and Fraserburgh Bays in a prompt and efficient manner, 

 and their surveys have since been published at the Admiralty on 

 the scale of 12 inches to the nautic mile. In Inverness-shire Com- 

 mander Wood has accomplished 37 miles of the south coast of Skye, 

 thus completing the survey of the island,* and Mr. Jeffery has 

 pushed forward his work in Lochs na Nuagh and Ailort, having 

 mapped 41 miles of the coast. 



In the Hebrides Captain Otter in the Porcupine, with her tender 

 the Seagull, Lieutenant Chimmo, aided by his staff of Lieutenants 

 Dent and Hawes and Messrs. Stanley and Grey, have examined 

 several lochs, with a portion of the west side of the island of North 

 Uist and the Monach Isles, and have sounded over a large area of 

 the Little Minch. 



In Harris Commander Thomas, with his assistants Messrs. 

 Morrison and Sharban, have surveyed Loch Eesort and a part of 



* I regret to say that this was Commander Wood's last work. His long services 

 on the West Coast of Africa with Admiral Fitzwilliam Owen, and on the north 

 coast of America with Captain Kellett, told at length upon his constitution, and 

 after a short illness he died on the 12th April, 1860. The mariner who frequents 

 this stormy portion of the Coast of Scotland will have cause to remember with 

 gratitude the name of James Wood. 



