 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 654 pages
...of the United States, with the instructions afforded by these charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without...astronomical observations at Santiago de Chili appears from the reports of Lieutenant Gilliss to have been actively conducted, and will probably be brought... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without them ; and there is reason to hope the time may be still further reduced. The Bombay Geographical Society, some time since, contemplated the formation of a set of wind and current... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without them ; and there is reason to hope the time may be still further reduced. The Bombay Geographical Society, some time since, contemplated the formation of a set of wind and current... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without them ; and there is reason to hope the time may be still further reduced. The Bombay Geographical Society, some time since, contemplated the formation of a set of wind and current... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1855 - 476 pages
...of the United States, with the instructions afforded by these charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without...reason to hope the time may be still further reduced." — (Annual report of the Secretary of the Navy, November 29, 1851.) " The Naval Observatory continues... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1863 - 1568 pages
...still further reduced. The expedition for astronomical observations at Santiago de Chili appears from the reports of Lieutenant Gilliss to have been actively...probably be brought to a close in the latter part of the nest year. The Nautical Almanac, under the superintendence of Lieutenant Davis, is also in a satisfactory... | |
 | 1888 - 350 pages
...of the United States, with the instructions afforded by these charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without...reason to hope the time may be still further reduced.' (Annual Eeportof the Secretary of the Navy, November 29th, 1851.) " 'The Naval Observatory continues... | |
 | Nannie Corbin - Oceanographers - 1888 - 350 pages
...of the United States, with the instructions afforded by these charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without...reason to hope the time may be still further reduced.' (Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, November 29th, 1851.) " 'The Naval Observatory continues... | |
 | Jaquelin Ambler Caskie - Oceanographers - 1928 - 212 pages
...of the United States, with the instructions afforded by these charts, make the voyage in forty days less, upon the average, than those sailing without them, and that there is reason to hope that the time may be still further reduced.' (Annual report of the Secretary of the Navy, November... | |
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... before. A letter from the Superintendent of the Observatory, which accompanies this communication, states the important fact, that vessels sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific ports of The United States, with the instructions afforded by these... 