Our country and its resources; . A GREAT BRASS BRAIN—THE WONDERFUL TIDE PREDICTOR 13! nlR CoINTKY AND ITS RESOURCES Of this reproduction will be both tosave the purchase price of suchcharts from a foreign governmentand to make the United States inde-pendent of any foreign governmentfor the supplying of world chartsto its own navy. Navigational charts to the numberof 123,1^8 and pilot charts to thenumber of 205,226 were published on a large scale and covering theapproaches to the Panama Canal,has been issued. Pilot charts are ingreat demand, showing, as they do,tracks of just past storms, preva
Our country and its resources; . A GREAT BRASS BRAIN—THE WONDERFUL TIDE PREDICTOR 13! nlR CoINTKY AND ITS RESOURCES Of this reproduction will be both tosave the purchase price of suchcharts from a foreign governmentand to make the United States inde-pendent of any foreign governmentfor the supplying of world chartsto its own navy. Navigational charts to the numberof 123,1^8 and pilot charts to thenumber of 205,226 were published on a large scale and covering theapproaches to the Panama Canal,has been issued. Pilot charts are ingreat demand, showing, as they do,tracks of just past storms, prevail-ing wind directions, compass varia-tion and other maritime information,making them extremely valuableeven to a vessel well supplied withregulation CHART OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN by the Hydrographic Office during the past year. At the end of theyear the Hydrographic Office had onissue the following charts: Hydrographic Office charts 2,281 Coasl and Geodetic Survey charts 664 British Admiralty charts !>4 Total 4,4:5!) The charts arc publishedmonthly Cor the North Atlantic,North Pacific and Indian Oceansand quarterly Cor the South Allantie and South Pacific Oceans. Inaddition to these a new pilot chartof Central American waters, printed Sixteen branch Hydrographic Of-fices are maintained, located as fol-lows: Boston, New York. Philadel-phia, Baltimore, Norfolk. Savannah,New Orleans. Galveston, San Fran-cisco, Portland. Ore., Seattle, Du-luth, Sault Sainte Marie, Chicago,Cleveland and Buffalo. In addition to these there are 52agents in the United states, locatedin .IT cities and towns, and 12 agentsin foreign countries for the sale ofHydrographic Office publications. The branch Hydrographic officesare engaged in col
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