Mr. H. J. West hav now brought out @ second and revised edition, of hhis admirable little handbook which ives the Pilotage Distance Tables Of the Lower Yangtze, Considerable changes "have taken place in' the navigable channels since the" rst Publication of these useful tables in 1928, For istence the distance from Woosung to Hankow by the. deep water track at present used is 979 nautical miles as against 585 in 1926, Naval Officers navigating the Yangtze, as well as Local Pilots and Masters of River steamers will find this new edition invaluable. In addition to the tables for the various stages between Woosung and Hankow,. the dook gives the latitude and longitude of some of the principal points and Treaty Ports between Woosung and Hankow, also the magnetic variations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.