640 MISCELLANEOUS 



Exploring Expedition, and subsequently to organize and command 

 [his expedition, which had been authorized by Congress, to be sent out 

 in response to the popular sentiment that the United States should 

 take a larger share in scientific work for the advancement of naviga- 

 tion and commerce. 



CHARTING GEORGES SHOAL AND OTHER REGIONS. 



The engraved chart of Georges Shoal, situated in the Atlantic 

 Ocean eastward of Cape Cod, was published in four sheets in 1837, 

 from the survey made by Lieutenant Wilkes and the officers of the 

 U. S. brig Porpoise and the schooners Maria and Badassah, and from 

 the surveys executed under his command between this period and the 

 close of 1842 by the Exploring Expedition, there were subsequently 

 issued eighty-seven engraved charts, which principally related to the 

 island groups of the Pacific Ocean and have continued, in many in- 

 stances, to serve to the present time as the basis of the charts issued 

 by all the great maritime nations. The work of engraving the plates 

 for these charts, as, in fact, for all engraved charts published by the 

 depot during its existence of upwards of thirty-five years, was done 

 under contract by persons unconnected with the depot itself. 



Mr. Alexander to the Secretary of State. 



WASHINGTON, D. C., February 1. 1910. 

 The Honorable The SECRETARY OF STATE. 



SIR: In reply to your inquiry as to the relative cost of outfitting 

 by American and Newfoundland fishermen engaged in the herring 

 and cod fisheries on the treaty coasts, I have the honor to send you 

 the following information. 



The cost of outfitting for the herring -fishery on the West Coast of 

 Newfoundland is as follows: 



1. For a Gloucester fisherman, which is ordinarily a vessel of about 

 120 tons costing approximately $15,000., equipped for purse-seining, 

 the cost of outfit will be between $2550. and $2950., made up of the 

 following items: 



2 seines at $800. to $1000 $1600. -$2000. 



1 pocket 80. 



Purse lines for seines 70. 



2 seine-boats at $375 750. 



1 dory 20. 



Oars and rowlocks 45. 



Roller for seine, boat-boom, seine boom 18. 



2. Newfoundland fishermen, operating in small boat from the shore, 

 would require an outfit costing approximately $190., made up as 

 follows: 



Boat $55. -75. 



6-60 rann nets at $17 , 102. 00 



6 net anchors at $2.50 15. 00 



400 fathom road line 17. 00 



