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A party was organized in tbe Hydrographic Office for the Partyoreanized 

 purpose of establishing by means of tbe electric telegraph gtute™yt!&e" 

 the longitude of places in the West Indies, and ou the north- sraph " 

 era coast of South America, at points where the submarine 

 cable had been landed. This expedition sailed from Norfolk 

 on the 22d of November in the Fortune, commanded by Lieut. 

 Commander F. M. Green. 



During the year there were published "Sailing Direc- Publications of 

 tions for the Northwest, West, and South Coasts of Spain, 

 including the coast of Portugal from Point Estaca to Cape 

 Trafalgar ; " " The Azores, Madeiras, and Cape Verde 

 Islands," and a pamphlet on the " Voyage of the Vaudreuil 

 through the Patagouian Channels and Magellan Strait," 

 all translated by Lieut. G-. M. Totteu ; also, a volume on the 

 "Navigation of the Pacific Ocean," translated by Lieut. 

 J. W. Miller. Of the sixty-four charts published, eight 

 were engraved and fifty-six lithographed. Among those 

 engraved were two sheets each of the North Pacific Ocean, 

 the Inland Sea of Japan, and the Northeast Coast of North 

 America series ; also one each of the Newfoundland and 

 East Coast of South America series. 



FISCAL YEAR ENDING JU.VE 30, 1875. 



The failure of Congress to make an appropriation for con- 

 tinuing the survey of the Pacific caused the withdrawal of the 

 Narragansett from that duty, after having completed the 

 work of re-examining portions of the Gulf of California. 

 Cruising vessels on the several stations, however, continued 

 to make frequent surveys and to forward the results to the 

 Hydrographic Office; but the want of an adequate appropri- 

 ation rendered it necessary to postpone the engraving of most 

 of these charts. Reports of such surveys, or examinations of Reports of sur- 

 reported dangers, were received from the Ossipee, Com- by y navai%es3eis! 

 mancler Ramsay; from the Wasp, Commander Kirkland; the 

 Brooklyn, Captain Truxtun; the Canandaigua, Captain Bar- 

 rett; the Ashuelot, Commander Matthews; the Omaha, Capt, 

 P. C. Johnson, and the Monongahela, Captain Thornton. 

 The commanding officers of the Canandaigua and Wasp 

 having changed within the year, additional reports were re- 

 ceived from each of these vessels, the former under Captain 

 Lowry, and the latter under Commander Mahau. 



