32 ROBERT POCOCK. 



and fifteen in the other direction. The manual is an 

 octavo of forty-eight pages, replete with evidences 

 of careful preparation, and it must have proved 

 at the period of its publication an extremely welcome 

 means of reference in the hands of the maritime trading 

 community, especially such of it as was connected 

 with the port of London. 



Mr. A. J. Dunkin, indeed, in his " Nundinse Can- 

 tianaB," 1842, claims that our author projected the 

 Navy List, and published it several years alone, and 

 afterwards in conjunction with Steel. 



The publication of that name we have seen, was com- 

 prised in the works provided by him for the subscribers 

 to his library (p. 25). 



