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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY.
sidered less full and perfect than could have been desired ; and in 1853 Lieut.
Constable was proposed to be employed to revise the portions deemed most
imperfect. I am not aware whether or not the proposition was ever carried
out.
Simultaneously with the examination of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , surveys were
executed of the harbours of Rajpore, Viziadroog, and Deoghur, with the ad
jacent coasts of Bhowleearee and Soonderye creeks, and the Gulf of Cambay
(1823) ; of the Coast of the Southern Concan, from Boria Pagoda to the en
trance of Rajpore river, with Bancoot river, and surveys of the rivers of Na-
gotna, Penn, and Apta, in the Bombay harbour, and of the shore from Bom
bay to Bancoot, including that of the Panwell river.* The results of these
surveys, which sweep around from Colaba out to sea, and so to the southward
to Boria Pagoda, are I believe still unpublished. Captain Horsburcdi had
executed a survey of the Arabian Sea from lat. 10 <= S. to Suez, and from
long. 39 ° to 63 ° E.— -i. e. from the head of the Red Sea to the entrance of
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. betwixt 1810 and 1812. The charts were published in 1816,
a second edition of them, revised from later surveys, having appeared in 184c!
In 1830 the survey of the Red Sea was resumed, under Lieuts. Moresby and
Carless, and continued under these Officers and Lieuts. Haines, Pinching
Grieve, Jones, and Barker, for the next seven years. The results were em
bodied in seven sheets of charts, published betwixt 1836 and 1844—the oene-
ral outline ol the sea occupying the principal charts appearing at the earlier of
these dates, just as direct steam communication with Europe was beino-arrang
ed. In 1838 Lieutenant Carless surveyed the Coast of Africa at the south
western entrance of the Gulf of Aden, from Ras Gulwainee to Ras Heffoon
laying clown the coast towards and above Guardafui,—a locality so dangerous’
to shipping during the south-west monsoon, as manifested by the loss of the
Memnon in 1843, and the all but loss of the Bentinck in 1845 The charts
were only published in 1848. In 1830 the coasts of Socotra, a large island oppo
site Guardafui at one tune used and meant to have been retained as a coaling
station, was surveyed by Lieutenants Haines, Wellsted, and Saunders, as was
the coast of Arabia from tiie Straits of Babelmandeb eastward.
The surveys of the Red Sea were, in so far as they yet extend, completed
with the survey of the Gull ol Tadjoura, and the coast south-west of the
Straits of Babelmandeb, by Captain Barker, and of the African Coast half
way up the Red Sea Irom Cape Janie to Sayra, by Lieutenant Christopher,
both in 1841. Suez Roads were afterwards made by Captain Carless, and
subsequently by Lieutenant Barker.
Betwixt 1839 and 1844 survey operations were in a great measure suspend-
ed on their resumption the survey allowances of the officers employed 1 were
found to have been retrenched and the number allowed on board each ship
greatly reduced. So far was this most unwise species of econony carried that
w™ !"’, 011 i u ™ rous lllla nd and along shore examinations, while
£3 011 1 ! hc Pal T rUS S m 1 ? 34 - 35 ’ w hich afforded such invaluable
results, had to pay his own boat lure, the ship’s boat being engaged on duty,
and it seemed as if it was meant to be intended that from hencelorth a survey
^ For nearly the whole of the information from 1822 to 1848, I am indebted to the Par-
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the same shelf with that of Goione! Waugh in reference to the Great Trisouometrical Survey
valuable. Co “ uuauJer Moatriou . ^ at once the largest and most