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vessels was the discovery of a good anchorage at Agua Yerde 

 Bay, in the Gulf of California. The Jamestown, successively 

 under Commanders Beardslee and Glass, cruising in Alas- 

 kan waters, forwarded numerous reports of investigations 

 and surveys made along the coasts in the vicinity of Sitka. 

 submarhi e e r vo ica a The Alert, Commander Huntington, attached to the China 

 of Japan. he c ° a8t Squadron, while engaged in searching for reported dangers 

 and surveying unknown islands off the southeastern coast 

 of Japan, discovered an active submarine volcano. The 

 bottom of the sea, in a region where previously there had 

 been deep water, was found to be hove up in some places 

 to within 5 fathoms of the surface. 



The Swatara, Commander Sampson, also attached to the 

 China Squadron, forwarded surveys of a reef in the Inland 

 sea of Japan, directions for entering the port of Vladivo- 

 stok, and information concerning shoals in the harbors of 

 Anioy and Hakodadi. 



The Lackawanna, Captain Chandler, furnished important 

 data regarding the positions of some of the Pacific islands, 

 notably of the Marquesas and Samoan groups, as well as 

 the results of investigations and surveys of reported dan- 

 gers, and directions for entering the principal harbors of 

 several of the islands. 



The Alaska, Capt. George Brown, and afterwards under 

 Captain Belknap, in addition to determining the geograph- 

 ical positions of a number of islands in the South Pacific, 

 made a series of deep-sea soundings in the adjacent waters. 



The Marion, Commander Buuce, in passing through the 

 Straits of Magellan, collected valuable data concerning an- 

 chorages in the Straits, and other information of interest to 

 the navigator. 



The Adams, Commander Howell, forwarded the results 

 of a survey of the port of Golfito, on the Pacific coast of 

 Costa Rica ; while the Kearsarge, Commander Picking, con- 

 tributed hydrographic information concerning the Boca del 

 Toro, on the Atlantic coast of the same country. 

 Examinatkmof i n the North Atlantic the Alliance, Commander Yates, 



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ered reefs, &c. made an examination of recently-discovered reefs off the 

 Virgin Bocks, on the Newfoundland banks, and in the ad- 

 jacent waters, and the Saratoga, Commander Evans, for- 

 warded the reports of a series of deep-sea soundings. In- 



