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Letter from the Mayor of Boulogne to Lightning, escape from,

Mr. Bleaden, 660.

Levant, a cruize in the 838.

proceedings in, 801.

capture of Gebail, 873.

Leveque, Cape, Australia, 705.

202.

Littlehampton harbour, report, 665.
Liverpool, deepening harbour of, 510.
Lloyd, Capt. J. A. on Cape, 476.

385.

Mr. plan for harbour at Margate,

Lewis, Mr. C. M. on rocks in Bass Lobsters in Norway, 134.

strait, 753.

626.

Liberia, legends of, 541,
Liddel, Lieut. on Table and Simons bays,

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Longitudes of places in Pacific, 760.
Loochoo islands, note on, 301.

Lord high Admiral, visit of, to ports and
naval establishments, 401.

Lyme Cob, land-slip near, 205.

Mail steam-packet company, contract of,

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Nauticus on desertion of seamen, 328.
Naval Chronicle, 42, 119, 187, 265, 335,
439, 507, 587, 658, 719, 793.
Naval commission, vote for, 453.

337.

Falmouth to Gibraltar.

Peacock Mr. on getting off a rock, 599.
Pelorus, H.M.S. at Port Essington, 674.
Penn, Mr. J. on rock of Cape de Gatte,
826.

Perryian filter inkstand, 282.
Perth Town of Australia, 571.

and milltary commission, report of, Pescadores islands, note on, 301.

officers of 1816 to 1840, 135.

tactics, 599, 901.

surveyors as seamen discussed, 316

Navigation, steam, 600.

works on, in general, 896.

Navy, British, the, 672.

estimates, statement, 210.
reports on the health of, 669.
Royal, in commission, list of, 69,
141, 212, 284, 388, 460, 532, 604, 677,
748, 821, 910.

ployed, 210.

officers and seamen em-

on manning, plan for, 307.
ships, building, 890.

Neale, Sir Harry, monument to, 674,
Nelson's monument, notice of, 386, 453.
601.

memorial, foundation laid, 887.

Nemesis steamer, 135.
Newcastle, notice of, 498.
Newhaven, harbour report, 663.
Newman, Mr. on the Bounty's chrono-
meter, 904.

New Zeeland, observations on, 149.
customs of, 151.

Nicaragua, excursion to lake of, 857.
Nicholas, Capt. J. T. on rock off C. de
Gatte, 733.

Niger expedition, particulars of, 265.
objects of, 380, 601.
Norie's navigation, imperfection of, 897.
North wind, properties of, 641.
Northers on coast of Mexico, Pacific, 74.
Norfolk island, 894.

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Report on merchant seamen's fund, 793.
Return to an order for regulating compa-

rative advantages afforded by different
ports in the channel as ports for the
departure and arrival of the W. I.
mails, 719.

Reward to Capt. Armoreux, 283.
Rio slave depot, 135.

Roberts, Lieutenant, R.N., on the British
Queen, 191.

Robertson's slide tiller, 814, 886.
Roebuck bay, Australia, 705.

Rogers's anchor, good qualities of, 137.
testimonals, 208.

Rosario, bay of, on landing cargo at, 74.
Ross, Capt. J., sound ngs of, 507,
Royal marines, examination of candidates

64.

Royal naval school, 530.

navy, ships building, 530.

Society, book signed by Prince Al-

bert, 453.

George, guns of, 895.

Royalist yacht, proceedings of, 314.
Ruby steamer, 527.

Rye, harbour, repors, 595.

Sailors homes, on forming. 62.
St. David island, Bermuda, 557.
St. George harbour, Bermuda, 559.
town, position of, 563.

Sandwich and Deal harbours, 524.
School, RN., Female opening of, 813.
Scott, Capt. on paddle boxes, 271.

RN., testimonial to, 452.

Scrutator on defects of hydrography, 883,
Scurvy, effects of, 66.

104.

and its antidotes, 103.

its ravages in armies and prisons,

its disappearance, 107.

first symptoms of, 112.

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Seven stones, on lighthouse on, 885.

115.

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Lieut. survey of Ports-

mouth, 596.
Shoreham harbour, report on, 664.
Shingle of the coast of the English chan-
nel, €20, 691.
Ships in commission, 672.

building, 672.

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831.

power, Earl of Hardwicke, 661.
vessels on the construction of,

on forms of, 436.

rule for passing, 901.

Thames, passengers by,

intended, 895.

channel navigation of, 827.
French in the mediterranean,

Stopford, Admiral, proceedings in Levant

801.

Sulphur from Iceland, 748.

Swan River settlement account of, 571.
visited, gale at, 851.

Syra town, notice of, 451.
Syria, operations on coast, 859.

Table and Simons bay, qualities of, 451,
511, 871.

Table for converting Foreign into Eng-
lish measure, and the reverse:
Lubeck feet, 67.
Hamburgh feet, 138.
Chinese li, 214.

Sardinian Palms, 286.

Neufchatel or Prussian feet, 390.
Zurich feet, 454.

Degrees &c, 534.

Cagliari palms, 603.
- Calenburgh feet, 745.
Sardinian palms, 818

Talavera destroyed by fire, 823.
Tangsoa island, note on, 301.
Tanks at Bermuda, 770.
Telegraph portable one, 184, 277.
Thames, off Woolwich, expense of clear-
ing, 530.

tunnel, progress of, 208, 674.
Time signal, see Chronometers, 128.
Tiller slide, Robertson's, 814.
Tiphy's on life assurance, 907.

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ENLARGED SERIES.-NO. 12.-VOL. FOR 1840,

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