CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 618

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apparatus which he prefers

I have the honour to be,

My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Bedient

Kumble Servant,

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11. September Since the

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Alinute by the Surveyor General.

The Requisition submitted provides for a first order Dioptric specified by the Trinity house. The only. difference being that the latter mention half-minute flashes, whereas the Requisition specifies ininute flashes . I have advocated the slower speed of rotation because of the importance roluring

avear

uice of

of rollers and roller-

-path to a minimum in this distant

4 replacement

quater of the globe where,

of

worn parts in the polatory mechanism is not er

cacy

as at home

I do

As regards the Mariner, not think that this difference is of great

moment.

long

ao a

distinctive.

period between the flaches is obtained,

Vavigator

€.

ators are apt to grumble

when the period between flashes is two

minutes.

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