...nearest point is about 10 miles from the mainland. Besides the wants of the mackerel fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an...all times and on all sides of it, and its position render» it of national importance. Tbe object of the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge...

...Besides the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is au important point on our shores for ocean navigation....and its position renders it of national importance. No work has been done here during the past fiscal year. In compliance with Senate resolution of December...

...nearest point is about 10 miles south of the mainland. Besides the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an...ocean navigation. It has a signal station connected bj submarine telegraph •with the mainland. Vessels are passing the islands at all times and on all...

...Its capacity is now hardly equal to the local wants. Besides the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an...on our shores for ocean navigation. It has a signal statiou connected by submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels are passing the island at all times...

...miles from the nearest point of the mainland. Besides supplying the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation the island is an...important point on our shores for ocean navigation. It has я signal station connected by submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels are passing the island...

...acts of Ici66 and 1867. (See Appendix С 11.) 14. Harbor of Refuge at Block Inland, Rhode Island. — The object of the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for vessels engaged iu foreign and coastwise commerce. Before the construction of the present harbor Block Island had no...

...miles from the nearest point of the mainland. Besides supplying the wants of the mackerel-fishing Heet and the general coast navigation the island is an important point on our shores for oeean navigation. It has a signal station connected by submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels...

...Its capacity is now hardly equal to the local wants. Besides the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an important point on our shores tor ocean navigation. It has a signal station connected by submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels...

...Harbor lies on the north side of the eastern entrance from the ocean into Long Island Sound. The main object of the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for vessels entering and leaving this entrance to the sound. The mean rise and fall of the tide is about Щ feet....

...the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation the island is aii iiuportant point on our shores for ocean navigation. It has a signal station Price per ton of 2,000 No. Name aiid address of bidder. 1 l|ll 35 a Francis H. Smith, New York, K....