Lard oil for lighthouses, 175.
Latitude on finding at sea, 539.
Laurie, Mr., on Charts, 675.
Law cases, 380, 499, 691.

Leake, Capt. R., 136.

Leaky ships, curious case of, 121.

Lean, Mr. F., on shipwrecked Fisher-

men and Mariners society, 446.
Legge, Admiral, notice of, 465.
Lesport, Capt., on Constant bank, 45.
Letitia ship, loss of, 105.

barque, rescue of crew, 178.

Liberty in the United States, 590.
Life in a merchant ship, 586.

suicide of, 215.

Madeira, coaling at, 46, 95.
Magpie, H.M.S., loss of, 635.
Magnetic voyage of Pagoda, 21.
Mails, weekly American, 325.
Malby's maps of the stars, 616,
Malcolm, Capt., loss of, 182,
Man, isle of, report on the, 238.
Manhattan, visit of, to Jeddo, 411.
Manifests for Gulf of Mexico, 406.
Manilla, Com, regulations, 152.
Manning the navy. 680,
Manual sign at Jeddo, 414.

Mexican war, proclamation, 381.
Mexico, gulf of, shoals in, 29, 86.

Mr. P. Masters on, 25, 86,

228, 303, 345, 406

directions for, 350.

Min river, dangers of, 46.

on navigation of, 398.
Mirage of St. Lawrence, 393.
Missionaries in South Africa, 11.
Monk, Admiral, sketch of, 590, 645.
Monoply of railways, 194.
Montezuma river, 88.

Monsoon on China Coast, 621.
Moore, Lt Mag., voyage of, 21.
Morant lighthouse, cost, 169.
Mortality in New Zealand, 569.
Mosquito curtains, 350.

Mourning customs at Riga, 476.

Mundy, Capt., on Coast of China, 621.
Mutiny, case of, 121.

Myngs, Admiral, Sir C., 526.

Maratabas river, entrance, 57.

Marble from Havana, 439.

Maria Soames' hurricane, 455, 531, 650.

Maritime discovery, progress of, 85.

Marlborough, launch of, 547.

Marquesas, a leaf from, 240.

Standard paper, 441.

113.

Mercenary servitude, 341.

construction board, 495.
officers and merchant seamen,

198.

Neglect of harbours, Ireland, 238.

Negrillos shoals, 27.

land, 486.

Newcastle and London railway, 187.

Newcastle, port of, 307.

ship, 254.

life in, 586.

Newfoundland, proposed light, 173.

customs of, 535.

current off, 377.

seamen, 254.

Newry harbour, report on, 237.

680.

barometer on, 453.

control of, 198.

hydrography, 565.

society, 441.

peopling of, 569.

Service, 653.

Skipper, bravery of, 632.

Mercury island, nature of, 10.

Meteorological register, 56, 112, 168,

224, 280, 336, 392, 448, 504, 564
620, 688.

Northcote, Mr, on Rogers anchor, 99.
Norther, Mexican, indications, 351.
Noss Head, Light proposed, 667.
Nourse river, its position, 13, 148.
Norwich, port of, 311.

Obispo river, note on, 29.
Obligado, action at, 162.
Ocean waves, height, 123.
Official bay, New Zealand, 567.
Oregon, question considered, 293.
treaty, 441.

Orguezo foundering of, 634,
Ortach, high water at, 162.
Orton's life-boat, account of, 127.
life-buoy, 225.

Otis, Mr., his devil, 202.

Ox island, Gulf of Mexico, 228.
Oxen not food in China, 628.

Porcupine, H.M.S., service of, 441.
Pollard rock, proposed light on, 174.
Port Royal temperature, 326.
Rush, report on, 237.

associations, 361, 630.

Portland, advantages of, 518.
breakwater, 513.

roads, 514.

Potts, Dr., system of sinking piles, 172
Poushan, city of, 625.

Predictions of weather, 372.

President steamer, report of, 104.
Preston harbour, report on, 239.
Princess, birth of, 327.

Privateers, American, daring of, 631.
Promotion, powers of, considered, 529.
Promotions, 55, 111, 167, 222, 279, 335.
391, 447,502, 563, 617, 681.
Propeller, steam, remarks on, 274.
Pryce, Mr., on Cæsar breakers, 613.
Punch and Judy at Chusan, 630.

Pabenque ruins, visit to, 346.
Pagoda, magnetic voyage of, 21.
Pain, Mr., bottle paper of, 260.
Panama, isthmus of, 489.
Panuco town, 88.

Parliament, acts of, defects in, 198.
Para, advice on mooring at, 506.
condition of, 507.

voyage to, from Bolivia, 507.
Passages, China to Bombay, 489.

Glasgow to Liverpool, 382.
to Petersburg, 439.

Passed masters of merchant service, 52.
154, 213.

Peacock, Mr. on Becher's horizon, 665.
Pearn, Mr., on Rodger's anchor, 51.
Penang, directions for, 210.
Pengelly, James, 370.

Peninsula Steam Navigation Company,
rule of, 583.

Petersburg, passage to, 439.
Physician of Riga, 475.

Piddington, Mr., on Charles Heddle, 429
on storm waves, 577.

Pilot act, reading of, 257.
and watermen, 255.

at Salinas, 506.

Pilotage of Hooghly, 544.

Piracy in Mediterranean, 373, 502.
Pirates, Greek, capture of, 551.
in North Sea, 440.

Planet, visible at noon, 629.

Ellen shoal, China sea, 266.
Graham shoal, 382.
Ianthe rock, Pacific, 265.
Manilla bay, entrance, 379.
Off Galveston bar, 339.
Off Rio Janeiro, 321.
River Plate, 321.
Ruyd, 670.
Singapore strait, 93.
Sooloo sea, shoal in, 44.
St. Michael's, 670.
Tingy islands, off, 94.
Walker bank, China sea, 148.
Rodger's anchors, 50, 329. 433.
Rollers at St. Helena, 322.
Rooke, Sir G., Adml., memoir, 472.
Ross, Capt., bottle of, 259.

Mr., on Tingy islands, 94.
Rough, Mr., on New Zealand, hydro-
graphy, 283.
Rowlands, Mr., bottle paper of, 260.
Rudder, loss of, at sea, 642.
Russia, Emperor's visits, 356.
Russian customs, 289, 351, 421.
dislike of English, 352.
drosky, 357.
fleets, 355.
police, 355.

Rush, brig, affair of, 373.
Ruxton, Lt., notes on Africa, 4.
Ruyd rock, Van Dieman Land, 670.

Sacraficios Island, 120.

Shouraka, Gulf, N.Z., 282.
Singapore, proposed light at, 172.
Signals coast proposed, 97.
Bufham's 149.

Distress, Rettie's, 196.
at sea, 541.

at St. Michaels, 613.
Sister Island, Australia, 85.
Skerries light expenses 492.
Skerryvore Light, coast of, 173-4.
Slade, Capt., on trial cruizes, 273.
Slaver, History of one, 220.
Slavery, in Tabasco, 349.
Sligo, harbour report on, 236.
Smith, Lieut., loss of, 635.
Snowden, M., height of, 277.
Sooloo sea, shoal in, 44.

South American packets, 381.
South Sea whalers, 371.
Speed steamers, trial of, 381.
Sperm Light, expenses of, 492.
Sphynx Steamer, engines of, 441.
Squall in a Merchant ship, 419.
St. Helena, rollers at, 322.
St. Lawrence, mirage of, 393.
St. Michaels, signals at, 613.
buoys at, 670.

Sailors' Homes, 483.

Salinas Point, dangers of, 505.

Salvage, case of, 328.

San Juan, Bautista, 232.

Sands, Mr., on New Island, 322.
Santana city, 86.

Saunders, Mr., on shoal off River Plate,
321.

Scotch seamen, 254.

Screw of Great Britian, weights of, 223.
propeller, case of, 380.

Seamanship, British, 205.

Seamen of Baltic traders, 286.

coasting trade, 186.

merchant, control of, 198.
hospital, 221.

Seven Islands, Banca strait, 449.

Severn Navigation, 315.

Shanghai, port, dangers of, 46.
Shark, H.M.S., at Port royal, 637.

145.

Stars falling in November, 671.

maps of, Malbys, 616.

Start Point Light, 348.
Staying, quick plan for, 519.
Steamboat, on Thames, 326.

of Great Britain, 440.
Steam Navigation regulations, 375.
to Cape, 678.
engineers, 681.

Steamer, largest, 278.

Steamers to Elbe, 440.

New Atlantic, 498.

Stevenson, Mr., on force of waves, 102.
Stewart, Capt., on Ship Masters, 339.
Stockton on Tees, 308.
Storm in Canada, 384.

of 1703, 376.

Currents, Piddington, 577.
Waves, Piddington on, 577.

city, 86.

bar, 286.

freighting for, 408.
charges for, bar, 409.
port, charges of, 409.
wages at, 410.

Tapititan, town, 346.
Tariff, New Swedish, 150.
Tasmania, on the name, 332.
Tattooing, New Zealand, 568.
Terrible, H.M. st.v., 269.
Texas, coast, charts, 337.

Thames Navigation Committee, 219.
river, on conservancy of, 315.
Three Kings, New Zealand, 565.
Thuro, Mons,, Capt., 61.

Tidal harbour report, (2nd.,) 233, 307.
Tide off Portland, 512.

in Gulf of Normandy, 184.
in Shouraka Gulf, 283.

Timber, duties on, 544.

New Zealand, 568.

Tombs, Chinese, 628.

Tonnage, shipowners on, 541.

Torres strait, passage through, 548.

659.

Trincomalee Light, cost, 171.
Tromp, admiral, 645.
Tuspan River, 118.

Tynemouth Light expenses, 492.

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Wadge, J., on Sooloo shoal, 44.
Wages of seamen, 405.

at Tampico, 410.

Waitemata river, New Zealand, 282.
harbour, 566.

Waken, Capt., on Columbia rock, 148.
Walker, Mr., on force of waves, 123.
Mr., on great circle sailing,

548.

Walwich bay, character of, 14.
Warner, Capt., invention, 442.
long range, 679.

Warwick, Earl of, anecdote of, 592.
Washington, Capt., on force of waves,

102.

Waterford harbour, report on, 235.
Waves, force of, 123, 125.
Wearing, quick plan for, 519.
Weather and daydawn, 451.
predictions, 372.

at Woosung, 629.
gloomy, at sea, 633.

Wellington, Duke of, age, 325.
Wells, port of, 313.

Wexford harbour, report on, 235.
Weymouth, rise of tide at, 516.
Whalers, American, 325.

Whaling bay, Australia, 85.

Co., of Turks island, 327.

Whirlwinds, curious one, 633.

Whitby harbour, 310.

White, Capt., on tides in Gulf of Nor-

mandy, 184.

shell rocks, Sunderland, 497.

Widow of Muckle harbour, 101.
Wilful loss of vessels, 328.
Winds of St. Lawrence, 395,
Wire-rope rigging, 680.
Woosung, schools at, 629.
weather at, 625.
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