Notices to Mariners: (Issued by the Treasury Department, Office Light House Board, Washington, in the years 1872, 1873, and January 1874.)1872 |
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0F THE LIGHT-HOUSE 15 feet 6th order 8AHO AMERICA----NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN apparatus is catoptrie apparatus is dioptric Ash Island beacon bearings by compass Boann BOGGS Boxnn buoy Cape Chairman CHAS clear weather Daboll Trumpet Day-Beacon December 14 dioptric distances in nautical ELLIOT Engineer Secretary entire horizon entrance exhibited feet above high feet high first fixed white light flashing focal plane fog-bell Fog-Signal foggy weather Fresnel lens GEORGE H Governor’s Island hereby given I I I illuminating apparatus intervals JOSEPH HENRY JOSEPII keeper’s dwelling Light-station Longitude 80 Major of Engineers mean level miles of prominent Muscongus Bay nautical miles Naval Secretary North Notice is hereby OFFICE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD ORDER 0F Ornce LIGHT-HOUSE painted black painted white plane is elevated Rear fldmiral Reef River Rock seen in clear Shoal statute miles system of Fresnel thick and foggy Townsend Harbor TREASURY DEPARTMENT UNITED vessel Washington