Nautical Notices, 40, 96, 152, 207, 269, 326, 382, 431, 562, 612, 689. Nautical remarks on the Rio Grande do Sul, 589. Nautical remarks on the Bay of Honduras, 242, 312. Nautical retrospects of the war, 639. New Charts, 109, 416, 569, 688. New Harbour of refuge in the United States, 615. Notes made on a passage to the Ports of San Blas and Mazatlan, 139. Notes among the islands of the Pacific, 450, 580, 631. Notes on the navigation of the East Coast from Flambro' Head to the Notes on the winds and internal commerce of South America, 465, 514. Notes on the coast of Veragua and Guatemala, 169. Notes on the passage between Manila and Sydney, 6. Notes on Vancouver Island, 299. Notes on a passage through the Grecian Archipelago, 414. Novel mode of shewing light from a lighthouse, 103. Observations on the tides of the English and Irish channel, 70. On the combined vapour Engine of M. De Trembly, 318. On the Geological features of the Goodwin Sands, and adjacent shoals, 572. l'acket ports, Boulogne and Calais, 200. Passage into the Bay of Fundy, 218. Passage from the Cape to Australia, 396. Passage of H.M S. Fisgard, through the Strait of Magellan to the Pacific, 507. Remarks on the pilotage of the river Suir, 62. Reported rock in Atlantic, 217. Report on the fisheries of the St. Lawrence, 316. Rodger's Improved Anchors, 277. Sailors' Home of the port of London, Well Street, 250. Saltwater made fresh-McBride's process, 386. Sea's storm of February 1847, from Liverpool to New York, 321. Shipwrecks on the Scotch coast in 1848, 247. Sketches at the Nicobars, 406. Something about the weather, 481. Statistical sketches of Graaff Reinet, 16. Steamers can't stop for soundings, 608. Suffocation on board the Londonderry, 51. Supplies at the Island of Coetivy, 263. Steam Statistics, 45, 101, 159, 220, 263, 329, 390, 442, 495, 616, 683. Table Bay, 560. Table of Measurement, 219. Testimonial to the late Sir John Barrow, 448. The Mandane's log, 539. Trade of Arracan and the Port of Akyab, 179. Turkish Topographical Nomer clature, 627. Visit of H.M. Steamer Samarang to Borneo, 124, 183. Voice from the Deep, on the present state of the Merchant Service, 226, 302. THE LATE SIR JOHN BARROW,* BART., F.R.S., L.L.D. THE name of the late Sir John Barrow will occupy an honourable place in the list of those highly gifted individuals of whom England is justly proud, and who, by their original genius and energetic minds, have, in their different walks of life, rendered eminent services to their country. The friends of his childhood and youth did not provide him with more than the ordinary means of instruction, but he seized on those means with avidity and industry, and it was his self-education that mainly conferred on him those powers which, when the day of trial arrived, he turned to so good an account. About the time that Mr. Barrow arrived at the period of manhood he was fortunate in obtaining, through the interest of a friend, a place in the first British Embassy to China. He was thus enabled to put his foot on the first step of the ladder of ambition; but every subsequent step of his advancement in his distinguished career may be fairly said to The accompanying essay dedicated to the memory of Sir John Barrow, Bart., who was for forty years Secretary of the Admiralty, will be read with great interest by naval officers, and no less so by others who had the happiness of knowing him. For ourselves, we preserve it in the Nautical Magazine, by permission of its author; a liberty to which we might almost establish a right, if we referred to that encouragement which our humble literary labours uniformly met with at his hands. It is from the pen of one who well knew his excellent qualities; but, we cannot allow it to pass by along the stream of time, without adding to it our own humble, but heartfelt tribute of respect for the memory of Sir John Barrow, after many years of official acquaintance with him, in the course of which we learnt to esteem the man for the excellence of the mind, and the amiable qualities of the heart.-ED. N.M. NO. 1.-VOL. XVIII. B |