148 EARL DE GREY'S ADDRESS. [May 28, 1860. 



Scarpa island, and the plan, on the scale of 6 inches to a mile, 

 exhibited at one of our evening meetings, has justly elicited much 

 approbation. This officer and Lieutenant Chimmo have very 

 creditably continued their meteorological observations in the 

 Hebrides, which are valuable from the paucity of such data con- 

 nected with those regions hitherto available. Some charts of these 

 coasts have been published by the Admiralty during the past year, 

 as the north-west coast of the Isle of Mull, on the scale of 1 J- inches, 

 and Lochs Alsh and Duich, in Inverness-shire, on the scale of 3 

 inches to a mile ; Loch Scriedan, too, is in the hands of the 

 engraver. 



Ireland. — On the east coast of Ireland Messrs. Iloskyn, Aird, and 

 Yule have surveyed the dangerous coast between Strangford and 

 Belfast Loughs, and a portion of the interior of Strangford Lough 

 and Narrows. In Donegal, on the north-west coast. Captain Bed- 

 ford and Lieutenant Horner have added some off-shore soundings to 

 their charts and completed this portion of the coast. Off the south- 

 west coast Commander Edye and Mr. McDougall have sounded the 

 approaches to a distance of 30 miles off-shore, and determined the 

 100 fathoms-edge of soundings, — a valuable aid to a ship closing 

 the coast of Ireland in a fog. 



In the course of the past year several new charts of the coasts of 

 Ireland have been published by the Admiralty, viz. from Bally- 

 heige to Ballinskellig Bay, on the scale of J- inch ; Achill Head to 

 Eoonagh Head, scale Ij inches, by Commanders Beechey and 

 Edye ; Eoonagh Head to Dooaghtry Point, Ballynakill and Killary 

 Bays, and Clifden and Mannin Bays, Inishbofin and adjacent coast 

 of Galway, Sheephaven, Slyne Head and parts adjacent, Sligo and 

 Ballj^sadarc Bays, all on the scale of 3^- inches to a mile; also 

 Donegal Bay and Sligo and Killala Bays, on the scale of li inches ; 

 and all from the surveys of Captain Bedford and his assistants. 

 They form an important contribution to hydrography. 



France. — Fourteen sheets of the west and north coasts of France, 

 from the Bidassoa to Ushant, and thence to Dunquerque, and seven 

 sheets of the south coast from Palamos to San Eemo, on the scale 

 of J an inch, have also been published, as well as several special 

 plans of harbours and roadsteads, all from that admirable work the 

 * Pilote Fran9ais,' which reflects high honour on M. Beautemps 

 Beaupre and all the Ingenieurs Hydrographes engaged on it. 



Spain. — A new chart of the north coast of Spain, from the Bidas- 



