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The sheets of the gulf and of the river below Quebec have all 

 been revised and corrected in longitude according to the most 

 recent determinations. The sailing directions by Eear-Admiral 

 Bayfield also have been revised, and the third edition is just com- 

 plete. In Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia the following charts 

 and plans have been recently published by the Admiralty : — Louis- 

 burg Harbour, on the scale of 4 inches ; Nicomtau Bay, on 3 

 inches ; Caraquette and Miscou, on 1 J inches ; and Little Bras 

 d'Or, &c., on xV^lis of an inch to a mile; and thus the squa- 

 dron that is to accompany H.E.H. the Prince of Wales to visit 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, and Canada, 

 will be furnished with the most recent charts and sailing directions 

 that this country can produce. 



Bay of Fundy. — Captain Shortland, with his staff. Lieutenant 

 Scott and Messrs. Pike, Scam ell, Mourilyan, and Archdeacon, has 

 been chiefly employed at the upper end of the Bay of Fundy, where 

 they have examined 60 miles of open coast, and 120 miles of river 

 and harbour shores, sounding over an area of 290 square miles. 

 An important service has been performed by Captain Shortland in 

 determining the limits of Le Have bank, which lies to the south- 

 west of Cape Sable, and now that it is correctly laid down on the 

 charts it will be useful in making the land in a fog, if vessels will 

 only be induced to use their lead and carry a line of continuous 

 soundings. 



West Indies and South America. — A very creditable chart of the 

 island of Grenada, on the scale of 2 inches to a mile, has been com- 

 pleted by Mr. Parsons, r.n., and his assistants, and they are now at 

 work on the Grenadines, and proceeding to the northward to the 

 isle of St. Vincent. 



A fifth edition of the second volume of the South American 

 Sailing Directions by our Medallist, Captain (now Rear- Admiral) 

 Eobert FitzRoy, thoroughly revised and much added to by Mr. 

 Hull, R.N., has just been published at the Admiralty : it comprises 

 the coast from the south point of the Rio de la Plata, through 

 Magellan Strait and round Cape Horn to Valparaiso, Guayaquil, 

 and Panama. A plan of Choiseul Sound and Bodie Inlet in the 

 Falkland Isles, in the South Atlantic, on the scale of 1^ inches to 

 a mile, has also been published during the past year. 



Variation. — My predecessor in this chair, in his Address of last 

 year, had occasion to notice with approbation the Variation Chart 

 of the world compiled by Mr. Frederick J. Evans, r.n., of the 



