May 28, I860.] ADMIRALTY SURVEYS—SPAIN— MEDITERRANEAN. 149 



soa to Capo Finisterro, on the scale of t'o"^^ of an inch, has just 

 been published at the Admiralty, as also a Plan of the Port of 

 Santander. It is hardly credible that an error of 11 miles in 

 longitude, in some places near Bilbao, on this coast, has up to this 

 time existed in all the maps of Spain published in this country. 

 This part of Spain becomes of greater interest at this moment, as 

 the immediate neighbourhood of Bilbao and Santander is one of 

 the best positions to view the total eclipse of the sun of the 18th of 

 July, and it is to these places, I am informed, the greater part of 

 the English astronomers propose to go. 



Mediterranean. — The Moro-Spanish war has led to the publication 

 of a chart of the Strait of Gibraltar, from an excellent survey by 

 the late M. Vincendon Dumoulin, on the scale of i^ths of an inch. 

 On it the correct features, with the lofty summits of Monte 

 Picachos, rising 2430 feet, on the Spanish shore, and Apes' Hill, 

 2800 feet, on the African shore, and the comparatively shallow depths 

 of that remarkable strait are for the first time truly represented, 

 the greatest depth being 510 fathoms or 3060 feet. Also a plan of 

 Ceuta and the adjoining coast to Tetuan, on the scale of 3J inches, 

 on which is laid down the new boundary, as defined by the Treaty 

 of the 26th of April, 1860, beginning at Khandak Eahmah, or the 

 Ravine of Mercy, on the north, and circling round the eastern foot 

 of Jebel Musa or Apes' Hill to the Wad Uyats on the south. The 

 Moorish coast, with the territory of Riff, is likewise shown in a 

 chart extending from Ceuta to the Zafarin Isles, on the scale of 

 ^th of an inch to a mile. 



In the Turkish Archipelago Captain Spratt, Ijieutenant Wilkin- 

 son, and the assistant-surveyors, in H. M. S. Medina^ have brought 

 to a close the survey of the Island of Candia or Crete, and we now 

 have, for the first time, a correct representation of that beautiful 

 island with its lofty central summit of Mount Ida — or, as now 

 called, Psiloriti — towering to the height of 8060 feet ; and we now 

 learn the exact position of, and the degree of shelter which was 

 afforded by the bay known in Scripture under the name of the Fair 

 Havens, Kaloi Limnes of the Greeks, in which the vessel bearing 

 the apostle St. Paul on his eventful voyage to Rome took refuge. 

 You will be gratified to hear that the special approbation of the 

 Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty has been conveyed to 

 Captain Spratt, c.b.. Commander Mansell, Lieutenants Wilkinson 

 and Brooker, and Mr. Stokes, all of whom bore a part in this survey 



