Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...of Down, and has sounded over an area of 65 miles. On the south coast Commander Edye has filled up the off-shore soundings that were wanting in our charts over an area of 1200 square miles; he has also sounded an area of 800 miles on the north coast. A general chart of the west coast of Ireland, on the scale of two-tenths of an inch to a mile, with numerous small plans, has been published by the Admiralty during the past year; as also Dingle and Ventry harbours and Blasket Sound, and the outlying fishing-bank and almost inaccessible islet of Eockall. Mediterranean.--While carefully sounding the bottom and pioneering the way for the electric submarine cable between Malta and Alexandria, Captain Spratt, with his staff, in the Medina, has taken advantage of the opportunity afforded to re-examine the north coast of Africa by Cyronaica, and to correct its outline; also to make plans of the roadsteads of Tripoli, Benghazi, &c. One of the first uses to which the submarine telegraph was put was to determine the meridian distance between Malta and Alexandria. This has been successfully accomplished by Captains Spratt and Mansell; and the result of these measurements gives 16 6' 3" as the difference, or 29 51' 42" as the longitude of the lighthouse at Alexandria; this determination differs only 14" from that already obtained by ohronometric measurements. On the coast of Syria Commander Mansell and his staff have completed a second sheet of the coast from Markab to Cape Bianco, and connected with it several important points in the interior, as Ba'albek, Hermon, Jibbel, Sunni'n, and others. The charts connected with the Mediterranean which have been published during the past year are as follows: --Valetta harbour, Malta, on the 6calc of 11 inches to a...