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THE PHILIPPINES.

Accept also the Admiralty Charts as worth something. We frequently hear that such and such a position in the Philippine Islands is incorrectly laid down on the chart, the reason possibly being that it differs from the longitude given by the chronometer of the ship, which chronometer often is not rated from the time it leaves England until the vessel returns. It is strange, but true, that few Captains have an artificial horizon and fewer use one. Rating a chronometer, although important, is not one of the problems of an ordinary master's examination.

ROBERT LONEY,

Cebu, 21st April, 1876.

Agent for Lloyds.