SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO., STATIONER'S HALL COURT;

AND

J. D. POTTER, 31, POULTRY, AND 11, KING STREET,

TOWER HILL.

LONDON:

WALTER SPIERS, PRINTER, GREAT PRESCOT STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOR 1859.

ENLARGED SERIES.

Account of a Chinese Camp or Village at Bendigo, Port Phillip, Aus-
tralia, 485

A few more Words on Lunars, 505

A Glance at Early Portuguese Navigation, as it was nearly Three

Centuries ago, 225, 363

A Lion in Command, 167

An Itinerant Bottle, 603

Antipodes Island,-Incorrect Position on Chart, 332

Arctic Discovery, 617

Arctic Voyage of the "Fox," 665

Astrology and Meteorology in France, 320

Australia,-Extraordinary Passages of the White Star Clippers, 168

A Whaler's Visit to Hakodadi, 256

Blasting the Vanguard Rock, 54

Cavern Researches; or, Discoveries of Organic Remains, and of Bri-
tish and Roman Reliques, in the Caves of Kent's Hole, Anste's Cove,
Chudleigh, and Berry Head, 493

Charger Shoal, 335

Currents of the Pacific Ocean, 287, 369, 425

Dalhousie and Bassein, 212

Dangers on the Coast of Tanasserim and Pegu, 218

Dartmouth Harbour, 123

Deep Sea Soundings, 208

Deep Soundings in the Pacific, 106

Description of the Amoor River, with particular Considerations Geo-

logical, Zoological, and Botanical, 23, 79

Desperate Encounter with Pirates, 608

Directions far Apaiang, Gilbert Islands, Pacific, 687

Directions for the Coasts of Sind, &c. and Approach to Kurrachee

Harbour, 685

Extracts from a Journal kept on the Shores of the Ochotsk Sea, 266

Fate of Sir John Franklin's Expedition,-Return of Capt. M'Clintock,

R.N., 544

Great Volcanic Eruption of Mauna Loa, of the Sandwich Islands, 261

Guano Islands, 500

Harbours of Refuge, 220

Historical Sketch of Eruptions of the Volcano of Mauna Loa, Hawaii,
353, 414

Italian Ports,-Ancona and Leghorn, 378

Japan, 40, 563

Japan a Century ago, 127

Japan Government, 65

Japan,-Ratification of the Treaty, 591

Journal of H.M.S. "Inflexible," on a Visit to Formosa, in Search of
Shipwrecked Seamen, 1

Lake La Guarda,--Verona, and the Promontory of Sermione, 393

Lights in Lyrics, 133, 183

Lord Elgin's Expedition to Hankow, 201

Macullah and the Curia Muria Islands, 638

Manning the Navy, 327

Maritime Official Inquiries, 600

Masters in the Royal Navy, 644

Maulmain Port Regulations, 151

Mauritius, 489

Nautical Notices, 51, 109, 164, 210, 275, 332, 381, 440 499, 560,

604, 684

Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, 461, 536, 596, 654

Negrais River,-Port Dalhousie and the Port of Bassein: Delta of
the Irawaddy, 214

New Books:

A Memoir of Captain W. Thornton Bate, R.N. By the Rev. J.

Baillie, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 223

An Essay on the Cause of Rain and its Allied Phenomena. By

G. A. Rowell, 499

Explanations and Sailing Directions, to accompany the Wind

and Current Charts, &c. By M. F. Maury, LL.D., U.S.N.,

Superintendent of the U.S. Observatory and Hydrographical

Office, 391

Geographical and Ethnographical Elucidations to the Discoveries

of Marten Gerrits Vries, Commander of the Flute Castricum,

A.D. 1643, 614