Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 4 |
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Pàgina 34
... naval com- missioners and board of engineers , in their joint report of 1820 , gave this har- bor the preference of all other positions to the east , and , inclusive of New York bay and the Hudson , as the seat of the great northern naval ...
... naval com- missioners and board of engineers , in their joint report of 1820 , gave this har- bor the preference of all other positions to the east , and , inclusive of New York bay and the Hudson , as the seat of the great northern naval ...
Pàgina 36
... naval properties of this important roadstead . First . It is the only port on the coast accessible with a northwest wind , which is the direction of the most violent winter storms ; and as the same winds serve for entering both Boston ...
... naval properties of this important roadstead . First . It is the only port on the coast accessible with a northwest wind , which is the direction of the most violent winter storms ; and as the same winds serve for entering both Boston ...
Pàgina 39
... naval commissioners and board of engineers en- trusted with the selection of sites for great northern and southern naval depots recommended , in their joint reports of 1819 and 1820 , Burwell's bay , on James river , for the one , and ...
... naval commissioners and board of engineers en- trusted with the selection of sites for great northern and southern naval depots recommended , in their joint reports of 1819 and 1820 , Burwell's bay , on James river , for the one , and ...
Pàgina 44
... naval rendezvous , the Chesapeake , which is on a mean six hundred miles distant , and to leeward , both as to wind and current ; and its being close upon the larboard hand as they enter the Atlantic , of the great concourse of vessels ...
... naval rendezvous , the Chesapeake , which is on a mean six hundred miles distant , and to leeward , both as to wind and current ; and its being close upon the larboard hand as they enter the Atlantic , of the great concourse of vessels ...
Pàgina 46
... naval station and place of rendezvous and repairs , we shall for the future consider it in that character , both in its relations to the commerce of the Gulf and its own proper defences . Although a naval station nearer the extremity of ...
... naval station and place of rendezvous and repairs , we shall for the future consider it in that character , both in its relations to the commerce of the Gulf and its own proper defences . Although a naval station nearer the extremity of ...
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