TREASURY DEPARTMENT. UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1, 1895. This volume covers the coast from Chesapeake Bay entrance to Key West, including the harbors and navigable inland passages. It has been prepared as a part of a large volume designed to embrace the Atlantic coast of the United States. This publication is based mainly upon the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the results of special examinations and investigations carried on in connection with its preparation. Much of the information relating to the Great Bahama Bank and Little Bahama Bank has been derived from charts and other publications of the United States Hydrographic Office and from the West India Coast Pilot, Vol. II, published by the British Admiralty. The system adopted in this publication includes I. A tabular description of all lighthouses, light-vessels, and fog signals; lists of life-saving stations, Weather Bureau wind-signal display stations, and seacoast telegraph stations; and information regarding tides, tidal currents, variation of the compass, etc. II. General information concerning the several bodies of water and harbors, including notes relative to pilots and pilotage, towboats, depth of water, draft of vessels entering, harbor and quarantine regulations, supplies, facilities for making repairs, usual or best anchorages, and other matters of practical interest. In each case the information of this nature precedes the sailing directions and is printed in smaller type. III. Sailing directions, with subordinate paragraphs treating of prominent objects, dangers, aids to navigation, etc. In the arrangement adopted the aim has been to conform, as far as practicable, to the order in which these matters would be considered in practice, and to render available such information as may be wanted promptly. For this purpose, and to afford a ready means of reference from one part to another, the sailing directions, where long, are divided into numbered or lettered sections, printed in large type, each followed by its own subordinate remarks in smaller type. IV. Appendices. This volume has been prepared by Lieut. Edwin H. Tillman, U. S. N., and Mr. John Ross, the work being under the general direction of Lieut. Commander J. F. Moser, U. S. N., Hydrographic Inspector Coast and Geodetic Survey. The aids to navigation are correct to May 1, 1895. As absolute accuracy in a work of this class is scarcely possible, navigators will confer a favor by notifying the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey of errors which they may discover, or of additional matter which they think, for the good of mariners, should be inserted. W. W. DUFFIELD, (III) |