INDEX. 



ACCOUNT, 3, 107 



Admiralty standard compass, 



283, 286 



Airy, Sir George, 209, 217-223 

 Altitude, 71, 81 

 Anchor Line, 379 

 Anchi/tia, 379 

 Anderson, Sir James, 113, 114, 



383, 441 

 Astronomical navigation, 3, 



68-105 

 Atlantic cables, descriptions of, 



443-445 

 Azimuth compass, 3, 11-27, 57, 



67, 335 



mirror, 329-336 



BAY FIELD, Captain, 49 note 

 Bearings, u, 329-336 

 Beechy, Admiral, lutes in Eng- 

 lish Channel, 168 

 Bel knap, Commander, 356, 



363 



\\ >urd of Northern Lights, 390 

 Bottomley, William, 322 note 

 Brake on sounding machine, 



354, 356, 365, 372, 374 

 Britannitt 378 



British statute mile, 74, 422 



CABLES, laying and lifting deep- 

 sea, 422-449 



Cachopo shoals, 59 61 



Cagniard de la Tour, 131 



Cardwell, Lord, 255 



Castor-pulley, 348, 349 



Cavendish, 154 



Celestial pole, 12, 71, 82 



Challenger, H.M.S., 359, 503 



Chart of English Channel, 385 



Charts, 27-32 



Chemical sounding tubes, 381, 

 382 



Chronometer, 3, 33-42, 85 



Clark, Latimer, 365 



Clyde Navigation Trustees, 216 

 390 



Collet, Captain, 322 note 



C llinson, Sir Richard, 420 



Collisions, regulations for pre- 

 venting, 116-125 



Colomb, Captain, 125, 126, 128, 

 419 



Commissioners of Irish lights, 

 390 



Compass, Admiralty, 283, 284 

 antiquity of, 229-232 

 azimuth, 3, 11-27, 57, 67, 



335 

 card, 19, 278-281, 285-302 



