Particulars of Lights Recently Established, 51, 111, 162, 215, 277, Port Clarence to San Francisco. By Captain Henry Trollope, Positions of Reefs and Towns on the Coast of Siam, 430 Proceedings in Japan, 632 Professor King's "Preliminary Notice of the Porcupine's' Sound- Remarks on the Atoll of Ebon, in Micronesia. By the Rev. E. T. Remarks on the Straits of Magellan. By Captain M. Connolly, Reef off the S.E. End of Puerto Rico, 167 Reported Shoal in the Atlantic, 335 Report of the Committee Appointed to Examine the Fog Signal Report on Dahomey. By Commodore Wilmot, H.M.S. "Rattle- Rewards for Saving Life at Sea, 95, 197 Route through Torres Strait by Bligh Entrance: the Booby Island Saigon, 1 Sailing Directions between Singapore Straits and Cape St. James Sailing Directions for the North Part of the Grenadines, West Indies, Including Bequia, Isle Quartre, Battowia, Baliceaux, and Rocks Saxby's Weather System, 391 Ships Equipments, Fishing Vessels, and Lifeboats. Jury Report: Short Notes on Japan. By Lieutenant G. T. Robinson, H.M.I.N, The British Association for the Advancement of Science: Meeting The Eastern Route to China or Japan in the Western Pacific, 113 The Forts at Spithead, 663 The Gale, 654 The General Improvement of Seamen. An Address Delivered at the The Late Mr. Richard Green, 168 The Lightning Rocks, at the Entrance of Port Phillip, 162 The "Porcupine's' Soundings," or Professor William King's Reply to Dr. Wallich's Statements, 132 The Sea Coast between Antwerp and Boulogne, 225, 312, 487, 595 The Strait of Gibraltar: Its Winds, Tides, and Navigation, 57, 140, The Water Mills of Argostoli, 660 The Western Division of the Mediterranean: Winds and Weather, 233, 305-Currents, 368-Navigation, 415, 460, 512, 572, 648 The Wreck Register and Chart for 1861, 31-for 1862, 588 Torres Strait by Bligh Entrance and Channel. Proposed Beacon on Voyage of H.M.S. "Cyclops," Captain W. J. S. Pullen: the Red Voyage of H.M.S. "Melville," Commander H. Trollope, from Sin- Weather Warnings and a Great "Day Auroral" Storm, 146 THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE AND Naval Chronicle. JANUARY, 1863. SAIGON. Of Cambodia and its great port Saigon, little as yet has appeared in modern times. The tourist who now makes his Voyage of circumnavigation (excepting M. Mounot*) is as yet silent on the Annamite capital. To the French, who are strengthening their hold on this great seat of Buddhism, we are indebted for the accounts we have recently received of it; from which it seems likely that another great emporium of commerce will be established between Singapore and Hongkong. In our volume for 1860 we gave an account of their first proceedings there, and we have given in our last number some instructions which the mariner who is about to proceed thither will find serviceable to him. These we now complete, and add to them the port regulations adopted there, dated in August last: to which we have prefixed the extract from a recent letter alluding in strong terms to the boundless resources of the country produce in articles of commerce. The great river of Cambodia is separated into three. The first comes from the West, and forms a reservoir for overflowing and fertilising lower Cochin China. The second is called by the natives the * See Proceedings of Geographical Society of March last. + Cochin China has scarcely been taken possession of by the French, when it is traversed by electric lines. One is at work regularly from Saigon to TonKeon, and another to Tran-bou. Letters state that as soon as the dry season sets in, other lines are to be established between the principal towns. NO. 1.-VOL. XXXII. B |