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has surveyed Locli Eoag on the west side of Lewis, and made 

 a beginning on Loch Maddy on the east shore of North Uist ; he 

 has also examined the dangerous rocks the Haskier, seven miles to 

 the westward of that island, an outlying group, on which it is 

 proposed to place a light for the safer navigation of those seas, and 

 to lead up to the northern entrance of the Sound of Harris. In 

 connection with the Skye survey, the Seagull was employed in 

 sounding over an area of several square miles between the south 

 of the island and the detached islets of Canora, Eum, and Eig. In 

 the island of Harris, Lieutenant Thomas has surveyed West Loch 

 Tarbert, and connected it with the eastern loch, which he com- 

 pleted last season. All these plans are projected on the scale of 

 six inches to a mile. Some of the original drawings have been 

 exhibited at our evening meetings, and have justly elicited much 

 admiration.* 



Some of the results of these and former surveys of the west coast 

 of Scotland have been published by the Admiralty since our last 

 Anniversary; among others I may mention charts of Lochs 

 Torridon and Shieldag, and of Lochs Carron and Kishorn on 

 the west coast of Eoss-shire, both engraved on the scale of three 

 inches to a mile ; Loch Tuadh and the isles on four inches ; and 

 the sound of Harris on a scale of rather less than two inches to a 

 mile, but sufficiently large for all the requirements of the mariner. 

 Besides these, there is a general chart of the coast from the Mull of 

 Kan tyre to Cape Wrath, on the scale of a quarter of an inch to a 

 mile, which for the first time represents with tolerable accuracy 

 the western shore of Scotland with its numerous islands. The 

 intricacy of this coast has hardly its parallel on the globe, unless 

 it be some portions of the west coast of Norway, Tierra del Fuego, 

 and the west coast of Patagonia. It has occupied more than twenty 

 years to survey; and, with the off-shore soundings, will require 

 five years more to complete it. Its cost when finished will not 

 have been less than 250,000/. 



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

 Yule have surveyed Dundalk bay and harbour, and broken ground 

 at the Strangford narrows. In the course of their work they have 

 sounded over an area of 70 miles ; but the chief service rendered by 

 this party of surveyors is the boring of Carlingford Bar, preparatory 



* Lieutenants Thomas and Chimmo have made a series of meteorological observations 

 during the past season in the Hebrides, which are very creditable to these officers, and 

 will, no doubt, prove valuable to meteorologists. 



