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compilation, and confessedly imperfect ; but there is little doubt but 
that it is far better than anything else that exists. It may be hoped 
that before long we may be enabled to improve it. 
The survey of the island of Santa Cruz, by Messrs. Parsons and 
Dillon, is on the eve of publication, as is also a chart from St. 
Domingo eastward to Dominica, including Porto Pico. 
United States . — Twelve sheets of charts and plans of harbours on 
the east coast of the United States of America, for which we am 
indebted to the admirable Coast Survey now so far advanced under 
Professor Bache, our medallist, have been published during the 
past year; they include the Delaware Eiver, New York Bay, New 
London, and other places, the names of which, owing to the constant 
intercourse between the two nations, are familiar as household 
words. 
Nova Scotia . — In the Bay of Fundy, Commander Shortland, with 
his staff, composed of Messrs. Scott, Pike, Scarnell, and Mourilyan, 
have surveyed the coast of New Brunswick from Quaco 25 miles 
easterly to St. Martin’s Head, also from Cape Chiguecto to Cape 
Sharpe 25 miles, and from Port George to Cape Split, on the Nova 
Scotia territory, about 40 miles ; they have also sounded over a 
space of about 300 square miles. Four sheets of the Bay of Fundy 
survey, on a scale of one inch to a mile, have been published during 
the past year. 
On the eastern part of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, Commander 
Orlebar, and his assistants Messrs. Hancock, Des Brisay, and 
Carey, have surveyed about 50 miles of sea and lake coast, in- 
cluding Great Bras d’Or, &c., sounding over 680 square miles. 
Two coast sheets and three plans of harbours, including Country 
Harbour, Whitehaven, and Miramichi Bay, have been published in 
the past year. 
Variation Chart . — In continuation of the lines of equal magnetic 
variation, which have already appeared on the Atlantic, Indian, and 
Pacific Ocean charts, a Variation Chart of the W r orld, to embrace 
this information so useful to the seaman and traveller, is being 
prepared for the present epoch by Mr. Fred. Evans, r.n., chief of 
the Compass Department at the Admiralty. It will comprise 
numerous observations recently made by various officers in H.M. 
navy, who have shown much assiduity in collecting materials. Of 
these we may especially mention an extended series made by Captain 
Eichards and his assistants in the Plumper , on her voyage to 
Vancouver Island,; by Mr. J. Loney, master of HALS. Calcutta , 
