Akyab, port, St. Domingo, 291.

Atlantic and Pacific, junction, treaties
on, 528.

Attack on boats of Rattlesnake, 362.
Auckland, cauri trees, 261.

Aurora Borealis, 86.

of the Assistance, 553

Austin, Capt., expedition, 184, 399.

sailing orders to, 341.
orders to squadron, 603

proceedings of, 523.

Australia, voyage to, 226, 278.

mails to, 294.

boiled beef, 705.

Authority of captains in Mercantile

Marine, 140.

rine, 561.

Amagura island, 260.

American Arctic expedition, 403, 581.

404.

Ancient naval records, 673.

Aneiteum, Isle of Pines, 430.

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Orders,

Anguilla island, account of, 531.
Anomalistic revolution, 381.
Anticosti, a penal settlement, 528.

Antilles, description of, 530, 620, 670.

Anti-Sargassian paint, 460.
Apia harbour, 218, 324.

Appledore town, 267.

Apprentices-seamen, 239.
Arabic dictionary, 78.

Arago on moon's influence, 380.
Arctic amusements, 553.

expeditions, 343. 399, 588.
funeral, 83
orders, 341.

ships, proceedings, 523.
voyage of Sir J. Ross, 8.

Ash village, 379.

Ashmore, Capt., on hurricane, 666.
Asia, abstracts of log of, 638.

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Bache on shoals off Nautucket, 122.

Balade, New Caledonia, 430.

Baffin Bay, esquimaux of, 590.

Bailey, on Mercantile Marine laws, 140
his levels, 549.

on Nicaragua, 481.
on boat's plug, 689.

Bank in Atlantic, 704.
Barham, case of, 366.

Barnard, Lieut., expedition, 165.

Barnett, Capt. E., on Antilles, 529,
620, 671.

Barometer daily fall, 438.

Barrier reefs, Ölinda entrance, 579.
Barrow, Sir John, tablets to his me
mory, 48.

monument, 386.

Basses, on light for, 57.

ledge of, composition, 59.
ships lost on, 62.

Beachey Head, proposed harbour, 151.
Bears' flesh, 17.

Bee, log in, 448.

Beiga volcano, 551.

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Biggs, Mr., his services, 401.
Binstead, Capt., R.N., gallantry, 636.
Biobio river, swelled state, 694.
Black Sea, collision in, 206.

trade of, 495.

Board of Trade and Local Boards, 506.
Boats, Laird's iron, 274, 337.

Bone, brittleness in cold, 162.
Bongos, size of, 552.

Benicia town, 281.

Booby Island, rendezvous, 238.

Bosanquet, Justice, opinion on Mer.
Marine laws, 141.

Botany Isle, 298.
Bottle papers, 45, 679.
Boulogne v. Calais, 240.
Bradley, Mr., on Basses, 59.
Brazil mails contract, 359.
Bruinie islands, 363.

British subjects abroad, 325.

Broadstairs, a Roman station, 314.

Brooks, Mr., on harbour at Beachey
Head, 151.

Broughton, Capt. tablet, 707.

Brown, Lieut., expedition of, 165.
Bunkett harbour, 433.

Buoys and Beacons.

Goodwin Sands, 521.

beacon, 323.
Helgoland, Stein rock, 521.
in Malacca strait, 339.

on removing from rocks, 340.
San Francisco, in harbour, 581
Burnett. Capt. on Great Circle sailing,
272, 326.

Bus, sunken land of, 554.

Byron, voyage of, 645.

Cæsar's anchorage, 310.
landing place, 314.
messengers, 213.
Calais v. Boulogne, 240.
Caledonia, New, 298.
California, flood in, 283.

how to get on there, 239.

Camelion run down, 203.
Cannibalism in Pacific, 426.

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705.

Carlos, Fort San, 491.

Carmen island, 650.

Carrier pigeons, 703.

Cauri trees, New Zealand, 261.
Chamolet island, Louisiade, 362.
Charcoal peat, Irish, 707.

Charles 1st, orders for his capture,

673,

Charts neglect of, 682.

Chilham fortifications, 217.
Choco Bay, winds of, 474.
Cholera, fear of, 694.
Christianity at Manua, 325.
Chronometer rates, 65.
Cinque Ports, tradition, 210.
City of London steamer, 660.
Clarke, Capt., bottle paper, 45.
Coal, combustion of, 369.
Cochrane, Capt., gallantry of, 582.
Coco islands, Antilles, 670.
Cocoa-nut oil at Samoan, 326.
Cold, effects of, 162.

Collinson, Capt., departure, 91.
officers of, 91.

Collisions, general lists of, 201, 207,
288, 330, 415, 454.

Colorado island, trees on, 483.
Columbia river, entrance, 453.
Columbine, collision of, 205.
Columbus, monument to, 704.
Combustion of coal, 369.

Composite sailing, 226.

Constance, passage of, 272.

Cook, Capt., medal presented, 581.
Copper trade of Australia, 706.
Corvo island described, 1.

village, 2.

Cost of Skerki light, proposed, 322.
Cowley, his voyage, 643.
Crisp, Mr., on Rangoon, 39.
Cuckoo, accident to, 340.

Current, in Barrow Strait, 19.

off the Cape, 26.

of the St. Lawrence, 421.

Lawrance, Lieut., R.N., bottle paper,

697.

Leighton, Capt., bottle paper, 697.
Leander, portrait of ship, 245.
Leon, lake of, 542.

Lewis. Mr., on Cinque Ports, 310.
Liddell, Lieut, R.N., 229.

Lifu island, 429.

Light at Antonio, Cape, 521.
Ardnamurchan, 40.

Cape Pine, 700.

False, on Bahamas, 462.
Galveston, removal, 629.
Gunfleet sand, 522.

Itacolomi, Maranham, 579.
Keyholme I., Baltic, 463.
on their description, 124.
River Plate, 293.
Santapillay, 627.

Ship rock, Sanda, 243.
Spurn point, 464, 523,

Lighthouse, Ballycotton, 584.
Bishop rock, 323.
description, 124.
dues in Spain, 700.
history of, 469,
Saugor island, 583.
Skerki, 318.

Limes, not obtained, 197.
Lipson, Com., on S. Australia, 577.
Lloyd, Col., on the Cape, 30.
Log, Berthon's, 52, 441.

books of Mer. Marine, 567.
on form of, 367.

Logwood from Laguna de Terminos,

conduct of, 512.

Maury, Lieut., on Polar sea, 630.
pilot charts, 186.

Melville bay, difficulties, 16.

Mendocino cape, rocks of, 629.

Mercantile Marine Act, 506, 561.

Merchant service bill, 364.

laws, 185,
Marine, specimen, 244.

Mercury frozen, 86.
Metallic plugs for boats, 689.
Meteorological Journal, Arctic, 88.
Register, 56, 128, 192,

248, 394, 360, 416, 472, 528, 584,
640, 712.

Minehead lighthouse, 584.
Minerva reef, Pacific, 261.
Minster, strata of, 215.

Mirage in Arctic sea, 17.
Misrepresentations, 193.
Mombo Tombo mount, 493.
Mona passage, currents of, 585.
Montreal Meteorological journal, 420.
Montezuma, town of, 281.

Moon, influence of, 380, 435, 499, 536.
reputed effects of, 538.
Moore, Com., proceedings of, 95.
on Plover's proceedings,

176.

Moorsom, Capt., wave guage, 220.

339, 462, 520, 577, 627, 699.

704.

sayings and doings, 581, 636,

Nautical reminiscences, 676.

Naval court, on voyage, Mer. Marine,

566.

Naval Tactics, 358.

Navy, royal in commission, 690.
Navigators Islands, 324.

Naze, or Nose, 375.

hurricane, 666.

New Caledonia, 359, 425, 430.
Guinea, natives of, 364.

Hebrides, account of, 425.
Plymouth, approaches, 129.

York, how things are done at,

244.

Pacific, 281.

passages to, 638.

Newspapers, Arctic, 553.

Nicaragua, Lake, excursion to, 481,

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Lieut. Wood on winds

from El Cacola, 548.

notes, by Sir E, Home, 218.

Palizado river, 649, 653,

Panama bay, winds of, 474.

Papagayos of Pacific, 475.
Paradise point, 271.

Paterson, Capt., on Akyab, 291.

Pay and provision of Royal Navy, 631,