■3.^3t captnin Brodie's chart. ^prll i r. 



Jinown, and several important errors in respect to longi' 

 tude and latitude corrected \ so that it cannot fail to 

 .prove a valuable addition to the nautical knowledge of 

 the coasting seamen. I make no doubt but Mr Downie, 

 ■from the extensive sale of this truly useful work will re- 

 -ceive a reasonable compensation for the trouble and time 

 Jie has employed in perfecting it. Surely if any species 

 .of exertion deserves the liberal patronage of the public* 

 this is one of those. 



Captain Brodie's chart of the German ocean. 



Captain Joseph Brodie, whose patriotic exertions I have 

 Jiad sojoften occasion to mention with applause in this Mis- 

 cellany, has for many years past been engaged in a labour of 

 the same kind, and very much upon the same plan with the 

 above, for perfecting a chart of what is commonly called 

 the German ocean \ reaching between the straits of Dover 

 and the Cattegut, and bounded on the west by the Britifli 

 (hore. This great work, I have the pleasure to inform the 

 public, is now in considerable forwardnefs, and if that 

 gentleman's valuable life (hall be preserved, will probably 

 be, ere long, presented to the public. Mr Brodie's chart 

 will not onlj contain the bearings and distances from the 

 principal places, and the fifhing banks in the course of that 

 chart, but very exact plans of the principal harbours, and 

 accounts of tides, currents (irV. the knowledge of whiclj 

 are necefsary for navigating in those seas with safety. 



N. B. One of captain Brodie's buoys is now finifhed, 

 with its flag-staff, complete, and may be seen by such as, 

 are curious in matters of this nature at Leith, It has beea. 

 tried in the water and found to answer the purpose per^ 

 fectly. 

 Acknowledgements tQ correspondents deferred till stir next* 



