686 



INDEX. 



Channel Islands, Positions, 



28 

 Chantereau Shoal, 603, 



608 

 Chapelle Rock, 609 

 Chapman, Mr. W., Sur- 

 veys, 42 

 Charleston Harbour. 74 

 Charlottetown, fit? 

 Charts, and their Use, 3 — 1 

 Chaucer Bank, 599, 606, 



009 

 Chepstow, Tides, 287 

 Chesapeake Bay & lliver. 



Tides, 283 

 Cheveley, Capt. G., Direc- 

 tions from the English 



Channel to the West 



Indies, 512 ; Directions 



to Demerara from the 



N.E., 537 

 Chimmo, Staff-Commr., 



Surveys, 51,56, 90 ; On 



the Arctic Current, &c., 



415 

 Christiania Observatory 



22 

 Churruca, Don C. de, 



Survej's, 85 

 Cinco Palmas, Vi2;ia de, 



611 

 Circulation of the Ocean, 



646—648 

 Clark Rock, 609 

 Cleveland Reef, 609 

 Climate : — 



Azores Islands, 570 



Bermuda, 585 



British Isles, 427, 428 — 

 429 



Canary Islands, 581 



Cape Verde Islands, 583 



Dakar, 568 



Gambia River, 568 



Isles de Los, 570 



Juby, Cape, 567 



Liberia, 570 



Madeira, 578 



Norway, 428 



Nunez, Rio, 569 



Oil Rivers, 507 



St. Michael's Island, 571 



Sierra Leone, 570 

 Clouds, Classification ol 



the, 658—663 

 Clowes Reef, 609 

 Coasts, Extent ol, North 



Atlantic Ocean, 2, 4 — 6 

 Cochrane, Capt. G. S., On 



Currents of Venezuelan 



Coast, 360 

 Code, Capt. \V., On Ma- 



rahon and E(juatorial 



Currents, 350, 352 

 Coffin, Prof., On Wind 



System of the North 



Hemisphere, 107 



Coimbra Observatory, 33 



Colombian Coast, Cur- 

 rents, 359 — 363 



Colon, Winds & Currents, 

 148 



Columbine Shoal, 608 



Columbus, Christopher, 

 Ocean Currents, 375 



Compass, See Magnetism. 



Compass, V'ariation of the. 

 See Magnetic Varia- 

 tion, and Tables of 

 Geographical Positions. 



Concepcion Bank, 605 



Constante Reef, 576, 606, 

 608 



Cook, Captain James, 

 Surveys, 2 — 3, 54, 56 



Cooper, Capt., On Ren- 

 nell's Current, 304 — 

 305 



Coral Shoal, 609 



Corrected Establishment 

 of the Port, 275 



Corsair Island, 609 



Costa Rica, Positions, 94 



Counter-Trade VVinds,124 



Courier Rock, 609 



Craven, Comnir., On the 

 Gulf Stream, 373, 387, 

 389 



Croll, Mr. J., On the Gulf 

 Stream, 421 



Cuba, Positions, 81—82, 

 83 ; Winds, 145 ; Cur- 

 rents, 307 ; Passages to, 

 520—521 



Currents, 294—440 ; 

 (236) The Distinction 

 between the Tides and 

 Currents. (237) Esti- 

 mating the Direction & 

 Velocity. ,238, 239) 

 Current Charts of Major 

 Rennell, Commander 

 Maury, and the Meteo- 

 rological Office. (240) 

 Currents are, in many 

 localities, Devious and 

 Erratic. (241, 242) 

 Estimates by Dead 

 Reckoning. (243) Drift 

 of Bottles and Floats. 

 (244) Experiments by 

 Prince .Albert of Mo- 

 naco, and Mean Daily 

 Velocity deduced from 

 them. (245) Researches 

 in Surface and Sub- 

 surface Currents. (246) 

 Circulation & Specific 

 Gravity of Sea-Water. 

 (247) Temperature of 

 the Ocean. (248) Origin 

 and Causes of Ocean 

 Currents. (249) Depth 

 reached by Surface 



(Currents — continued .) 

 Currents. (250) Drift 

 and Stream Currents. 

 (251) The General Sys- 

 tem of North Atlantic 

 Currents. (252) Enu- 

 meration of the Cur- 

 rents : 1. Rennell's Cur- 

 rent. 2. North African 

 Current. 3. The Guinea 

 Current. 4. Sargasso 

 Sea. 5. The Equatorial 

 Currents. 6. Currents 

 of the Caribbean Sea. 

 7. Gulf Stream. 8. The 

 N.E. Drift to Europe. 

 9. Arctic or Labrador 

 Current. (See, also, the 

 Index, under these Head- 

 ings). (253) Occasional 

 Irregularities. 

 Currents, On the Causes 



of, 377—379 

 Africa, N.W. Coast of, 



567, 568 

 .Anegada Passage, 354, 



355 

 Antigua Passage, 35 1 

 Antonio, Cape, 367 

 Arguin Bank, 323, 568 

 Aspinwall or Colon, 148 

 Azoreslslands, 573 

 Baffin's Bay, 433 

 Bahama Islands and 



Passages, 354 — 355 

 Barbados, 354 

 Belle Isle Strait, 437 

 Bermuda, 586 

 Biscay, Bay of, 301 — 



302, 307—308, 560 

 Canary Islands, 314, 



317" 318, 321, .582 

 Cape Verde Islands, 314, 



584 

 Caribbean Sea, 380 — 



381 

 Caribbee or Windward 



Islands, 526 — 529 

 Colombian Coast, 359 



—363 

 Cuba, 367 



Darien, Gulf of, 364 

 Davis Strait, 431 — 433 

 Denmark Sound, 430 

 Dominica Passage, 354 

 Europe, West Coast, 



312 

 Between Cape Finis- 



terre and the Azores, 



316 

 Flores Island, 573 

 Greenland, 431 — 433 

 Grenada, .534 

 Grenada Passage, 353 

 Grenadines, 353 

 Guadaloupe Passage, 



354 



