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LOG-BOOKS, RECORDS, &c. 



Log-books of fishermen. 



Log-books kept by masters of New England cod vessels under the re- 

 quirements of the old bounty law. 



CHARTS USED BY FISHERMEN. 



In the Exhibits of the United States Coast Survey and the Hydro- 

 graphic Office may be found the various charts of the coast of the 

 United States prepared by the government. As a rule, however, the 

 fishing vessels prefer to carry the Eldridge charts. 

 39237. Eldridge's charts. Published by S. Thaxter & Son, Boston, Mass. 



No. 1. The Vineyard Sound and Nantucket Shoals, on a very large scale, 

 with a book of sailing directions. Persons using this chart will 

 save the expense of emploj-ing a pilot. 



No. 2. The Coast of North America, from Cape Henry to Cape Sable, 

 including the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, and George's 

 Shoals, on a. large scale. 



No. 3. Cape Cod to Belle Isle, including the Bay of Fiuidy, Gulf of Saint 

 Lawrence, and Banks of Newfoundland, with plans on a large 

 scale of the coast of Nova Scotia, from Cape Canso to Pictou; 

 the coast of Cape Breton, from Scutari to Sydney, and the 

 harbor of Saint John's, Newfoundland, Saint John, New Bruns- 

 wick, Halifax, and Miramichi. This is a new chart, prepared 

 from the latest surveys, expressly for the coal and fishing 

 trades. 



No. 4. Boston Harbor, on a large scale, with sailing directions. This 

 chart aftbrds a more practical guide to the various channels, 

 passages, fishing-grounds, &c., of Boston Harbor, than any that 

 has ever been issued. The bearings and distances of dangerous 

 rocks and shoals, and the principal ranges of objects, are all 

 given on the chart. 



No. 5. A new chart of Long' Island Sound, from Newport to New York ; 

 with a book of sailing directions, containing a full descrip- 

 tion of the dangers to be avoided in entering the various 

 harbors of the sound. 



No. 6. Lynn to Halibut Point, with the harbors of Salem, Beverly, Mar- 

 blehead, Manchester, Gloucester, Rockport, and Annisquam; 

 also the stone (piai'ries at Folly Cove. Lanesville, Bay View, 

 «fec., on a large scale. 



No. 7. Chesapeake Bay, with the James, York, Rappahannock, and Poto- 

 • mac Rivers. This is a new chart, and the only one published 

 which gives the rivers on a large scale on one sheet. 



No. 8. Montauk Point to Saint Augustinfe, with a plan of New York Bay 

 and Harbor on a large scale. 



No. 9. Saint Augustine to New Orleans, with Florida Reefs, Bahama 

 Banks, and entrance to Pensacola and Mobile Bays, on a large 

 scale. 



