240 - Geographical Notices. 
bay (Galveston) two hundred and fifteen miles, passing over Matagorda 
Aransas, and Corpus Christi bays and their dependencies, to within on@ 
hundred and fifteen miles of the Rio Grande. ; 
The progress on the western coast has not been less satisfactory, peo] 
the newness of the survey there into consideration. It has included all 
harbors of California and Oregon, and many of those of Washington 
erritory, especially those of Washington sound, Puget’s soun aif of 
Admiralty inlet, the straits of Haro and Rosario, and part of the Gult? 
Georgia, in the northwest. af 
Having given, in my letter of last year, a statement of the progres 
the astronomical and magnetic work, I need not repeat it here. 
longitude problem has been steadily kept in view, and the oon 
the total solar eclipse, the path of which crossed from the — ioe 
part of the United States, through Washington Territory and the iat 
possessions, leaving the continent on the coast of Labrador, has tables 
made available for the correction of longitudes and of the lunar a 
by parties sent out for the purpose in connection with those of othél | 
partments of the government, and in correspondence with the great 
E 
ronomical expeditions of Europe. 
