Bulletin, Volume 2, Issues 26-35Coast and Geodetic Survey Office, 1893 |
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20 fathoms Alaska anchor anchorage angles apparatus bight bluff Bulletin Cape centimetres channel charts Chatham Strait Coast and Geodetic coefficients connected Cooks Inlet Cove curve declination determined direction distance eastern shore eastward entrance equations extending fathoms feet flat Geodetic Survey Gulf Stream harbor high water inlet instrument kelp Killisnoo kilogramme lagoon latitude ledge longitude low water magnetic marked by kelp means meridian method metre mid-channel Mitchell Bay mountain narrow navigation northern shore northward observations one-half mile Otstoia Island pair pendulum Peril Strait Point Caution Point Craven Point Gardner Point Thatcher reefs rocky sand scale shoal side Sitkoh Bay south shore southern point southward standard sunken rock Superintendent T. C. MENDENHALL tide tion topographical triangulation U. S. Coast values vessels W. H. Dall weights and measures western Whitewater Bay wooded island Woody Point WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION yards zenith telescope