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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15 feet 6th order AMERICA-FLORIDA apparatus is catoptric apparatus is dioptric Ash Island beacon bearings by compass bears SW BOGGS BOVED buoy Cape catoptric Chairman Channel CHAS clear weather Daboll Trumpet Day-Beacon dgil distances in nautical ELLIOT Engineer Secretary entire horizon entrance exhibited feet above high feet high fixed red light fixed white light focal plane fog-bell Fog-Signal foggy weather Fresnel lens GEORGE H giving blasts hereby given illuminating apparatus illuminating the entire intervals Island light-house bears JOSEPH HENRY keeper's dwelling Light-station lliw Longitude 80 Major of Engineers mean level miles of prominent Muscongus Bay nautical miles Naval Secretary North NORTHWESTERN LAKES Notice is hereby novig OFFICE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD painted black painted white plane is elevated prominent objects Rear Admiral Reef Reef.-Latitude River Rock seen in clear Shoal statute miles system of Fresnel thick and foggy TREASURY DEPARTMENT UNITED vessel