CONTENTS TO VOLUME FOR 1848.
Admiralty order, 388.
Admiralty court, 272.
Algoa bay and Port Elizabeth, 582.
American expedition to the Dead Sea, 692.
An act for regulating the shipping of seamen, 44.
Ancient naval records, 426, 478, 539.
An eye to windward, 462.
Aneroid Barometer, 972.
Antiquity of wigs, 482.
Appeals to the house of lords, 220.
Arctic Expedition, 272, 362, 441, 541, 610, 688.
Avenger, 103, 157, 201, 271.
Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 56, 112, 167, 224, 279, 334, 391, 447, 566,
Bottle papers, 689.
Britannia Islands, 570.
British association, 109, 150.
British navy and its seamen, 1, 64.
British merchant ships, 309.
Burlington and Chicago ship canals, 25.
Che-kiang and other cities, 182.
Chronological list of hurricanes which have occurred in the West Indies
Descent of the mail steamer Gildersleeve down the north channel of the Long
Description of the Madeira Islands, 281, 405, 413, 550.
Description of Bolong Java and of the Bird's Nests, 293.
Description of Shanghai and other ports, 228.
Desultory remarks on the trade winds, 70.
Discovery of coal at Vancouver's Island, 155.
Discoveries in Australia, 273.
Disturbance in New Zealand, 48.
Examination of masters and mates in the merchant service, 53, 84, 195, 323,
439, 492, 558,
Examination of the coast of Malay Peninsula, from Pulo Panjang in search of
coal deposits in 1847, 204,
Experiments made to determine the length, height and speed of the sea near
the Cape of Good Hope, 228.
Expedition in search of Sir J. Franklin, 272.
General view of what are regarded by the Chinese as objects of Worship, 599.
Glance at Rhio, 473.
Great and Little Basses, and the emergent necessity of fixing a light in the
vicinity of those dangers, 57.
Great circle tables, 491.
Great earthquake in Java, 212.
Great sea serpent, 618, 654.
Gulf of California, 637.
Gutta percha, 553.
Local Deviation of route of circular storms, &c., 137.
Longitude by chronometer at sunrise or sunset, 620.
Massacre of Missionaries in Oregon, 548.
Meacock's patent for the prevention of spontaneous combustion, 491.
Meteorological regigter, 45, 112, 168, 224, 280, 336, 392, 448, 504, 566, 622
694.
Nautical Notices, 39, 89, 159, 202, 379, 442, 488, 561, 613, 686.
Nautical sketches, 126, 252, 360.
Navigation laws, 334, 676.
Naval apprentices, 271.
Naval force of Great Britain, 273.
New Books, 165, 274, 328, 390, 442, 502, 620.
New Charts, 49, 111, 522, 269, 338, 391, 565, 695, 693.
Note on the navagation of the bay of Fundy, 671.
Notes on St. Lawrence navigation, 414.
Novel life preserver, 166.
Nests, Rocks there, 293.
New era in steam navigation, 154.
Official quarterly obituary, 279, 447.
On the sternboard in steamers, 602.
Oregon and Vancouver's Island, 517.
Oceanic currents, 174, 234.
On periodic meteors, 110.
On the atmosphere of the moon, 152.
On the various descriptions of lighthouses, light vessels, and beacons, 148.
On the want of a board of examiners at Bristol, 79.
On the difficulty attending the embarkation of an invading army, 80.
Permanent currents of the Ocean, 13.
Phenonomena of lightning, 158.
Port Philip immigration and anti-shipwreck society, 27.
Promotions and appointments, 55, 111, 167, 228, 277.
Proposed North American passengers bill, 209.
Pacific navigation, 337, 418.
Pursuit and capture of the General Wood convicts, 603.
Royal Mersey yacht club, 108.
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