geogeaphicaij positions. 



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NOVA SCOTIA— NEW BRUNSWICK. 



LAT. N. 



LONG. W. 



VAR. 



WEST, 



1895. 



AUTHORITIES. 



Horton BlufT, Lighthouse 

 Partridge Island, in the 



Mines Channel 



Cape Chignecto 



Isle Haute, Lighthouse ... 

 Cumberland Basin, Ward 



Point, Lighthouse 



NEW BRUNSWICK. 



Hillsborough, Light 



Cape Enrag^, Lighthouse 

 Quaco Head, Lighthouse.. 

 Cape Spencer, Lighthouse 

 Partridge Island, Lightho 

 City of St. John, South end 

 Point Lepreau, Lighthouse 

 Beaver Harbour, Lightho. 

 South Wolf, Lighthouse.. 

 Passamaquoddy Bay, St. 

 Andrew's, Lighthouse... 

 Grand Mananld., Swallow 

 TaO, or N.E. Point, Lt.- 



house 



Gannet Rock, Lighthouse 



44 45 55 

 44 30 35 



The Surveys by Comm. 

 Shortland, R.N., Admiral 

 Bavfield, and Commander 

 Oriebar, R.N., to 18G7, &c. 



Lieutenants Harding 

 Kortright, E.N. 



and 



NOTES. 



1. Sable Island. — On this island is an establishment for the relief of shipwrecked 

 mariners. It was founded, in iy03, by the Provincial Legislature of Nova Scotia, at the 

 recommendation of the late Sir John Wentworth, then Lieutenant-Governor; and has 

 since proved the means of saving many lives. 



2. Nova Scotia. — The coasts of Nova Scotia were first laid down from the surveys of 

 Mr. Des Barres, with emendations by Mr. A. Lockwood, R.N., and various corrections 

 in position by Admiral Owen and others. After the completion of the survey of the 

 Canadian coasts, our Admiralty Surveyors, Admirals Bayfield and W. F. Owen, with 

 Captains Shortland and Oriebar, re-examined the South-East shores of Nova Scotia and 

 the Bay of Fundy, the results of which are shown in the Table. 



3. Halifax. — In former editions of this work the following appears : — •' The latitude 

 of the Naval Yard of Halifax, from observations very carefully made by the officers of 

 H.M.S. Niemen, in 1842, was 44° 39' 37". This w^as gained by eleven meridian altitudes 

 with the artificial horizon, and several observations made on each side of noon at small 

 intervals ; the mean true altitudes being computed from the hour angles. The longitude, 

 63° 33' 43", was obtained as the mean result of more tiian 30 sets of lunar distances. We 

 formerly gave the longitude of M. Des Barres, &c., as 63° 32' 40", and tiierefore presume 

 that a statement of 63° 37' 48", which has lately appeared, is 4' too far West." 



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