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AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Alte. X EX Reviein of the Annual Report on the U. SW. 
Coast Survey.* 
Tue annual report of this important national work, interesting 
alike to the man of science, to the sailor, and the philanthropist, 
has just been published ; and in accordance with our intention 
of keeping our readers informed of the state of the survey, we 
purpose to give a brief account of the operations during the past 
year, dwelling particularly on those points which are more gen- 
erally interesting in a scientific point of view. 
Plans and Operations.—The general plan for the more rapid 
extension of the survey presented in the previous reports of the 
Superintendent, i 
Which it promised at its commencement. This plan, it will be 
recollected, consists in dividing the whole of our extended sea- 
pie including that of the Gulf of Mexico, into nine nearly 
, * Report of the Superintendent (Alexander D. Bache, LL.D ) of the Coast Sur- 
3, showing the progress of the work during the year ending Octoher, 1847. 
(Senate Document, 30th Congress, Ist Session, Executive No. 6. , 8vo. 
our last num (p. 299) we barely announced the appearance of this Re- 
tee — cited a few paragraphs relating to the general results of the past year’s 
Srcoxp Srnrgs, Vol. V, No. 15.—May, 1848. 40 
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