Identifier: americanauniver04beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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commandant, orsome other line officer, is to be second in com-mand in each district; in time of war lighthouseinspectors are to be second in command. SeeBlockade; Bombardment; Fortification. Coast Guard, a British force formerlyunder the customs department, and intendedonly to prevent smuggling, but now organizedalso for purposes of defense and governed bythe admiralty. The men, who are generally oldmen-of-wars men of good character, have highpay and are furnished with free cottages. Theforce numbers, with officers and men, about4,000. Coast Pilots are compiled to assist mari-ners in the navigation of their vessels, and, whenfrom any cause they are without charts, to enablethem to safely carry their vessels from port toport along the coast. The governments of alllarge maritime nations publish works for thesepurposes. As early as 1796 a volume known as (TheAmerican Coast Pilot, by Capt. Lawrence Fur-long, was published in Ncwburyport, Mass., byEdmund M. Blunt, and the first edition met
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1 A 12-Inch Mortar. - Rear View of 8-Inch Gun Showing Compressed-Air Attachment and Dummy Shell. 3 Working Model of 8-Inch Gun. SHELL PRACTICE WITH MODERN COAST-DEFENSE GUNS IN A CITY ARMORY- COASTAL PLAIN with so ready a sale that a second edition of thesame work was published in 1798. Since thelatter date numerous compilers have publishedcoast pilots of the coast of the United Statesand its harbors. These works were compiledfrom charts, from reports by shipmasters pub-lished in the newspapers, and from surveys andthe personal knowledge of the compilers, someof whom were experienced shipmasters. The vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey,while engaged in surveying the coast and har-bors of the United States, collected much infor-mation of importance to mariners which could notbe shown on the charts or completely given inNotices to Mariners. (Coast Pilots are pub-lished and distributed by the Coast and GeodeticSurvey at the cost of the printing and binding.Similar information can no

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