The Black Sea Pilot 1855 [Sailing directions, Great Britain Admiralty]

The Black Sea Pilot 1855 [Sailing directions, Great Britain Admiralty]

Author: [Great Britain] Hydrographic Office, Admiralty; Chevalier Taitbout De Marigny

Year: 1855

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Chicago https://books.google.com/books?id=F_lMAQAAMAAJ Translated from the French, by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The Advertisement, at the front of the book, says The following Sailing Directions for the Black Sea and Sea of Azov are from the second edition of the work entitled Pilote de la Mer Noire et de la Mer d'Azov , by the late Chevalier Taitbout de Marigny, Consul General of the Netherlands at Odessa, published at Constantinople in 1850. They have been translated from the original by Mr. Frederick Hill, and adapted to the series of Admiralty charts (engraved from the Russian Survey of the Black Sea under Captain Manganari, executed between the years 1832-6,) by Mr. J.W. King, Master R.N. Useful additions also have been made to the original from the Remark Books of Commander Luce, and Messrs. Turton and Johnson, Masters R.N., and especially from the notes and observations of Captain Spratt, C.B., and the Officers of H.M. surveying vessel Spitfire, who during the past year have made plans of the bays of Búrghaz, Varna, and Kustenjeh, and of the Sulina Mouth of the Danube, on the western