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 The charts and plans of Captain Smyth’s gigantic undertaking are now constantly used by the British, French, American, and Russian squadrons in the Mediterranean; and we perceive how highly they are appreciated by discerning officers, whose letters are before us: but by none have they been more warmly or liberally hailed than by the scientific Captain Beaufort, – himself an acknowledged first-rate hydrographer, – “The more I see of your Mediterranean surveys,” he observes, “the more I admire the great extent of your labours – the perseverance of your researches – the acuteness of your details – and the taste with which you have executed the charts. Take them altogether, no survey has ever before issued from the Admiralty that can be compared to yours. It is quite astonishing the work that you did, – and did in such a masterly manner, in the time you were abroad.”

As this service, though originating in the efforts, and at the expence, of an individual, cannot but be deemed honorable to the naval profession at large, we take pleasure in shewing how it has been mentioned in the widely circulated journal of the celebrated Baron de Zach.

And again in Vol. IV. p. 113, the Baron says:

“Le 12 du mois d’Aout, M. le Capitaine Smyth, est venu rélâcher avec son observatoire flottant dans le port de Gênês. j’ai eu la seconde fois le plaisir et l’avantage de revoir, et de n’entretenir avec ce marin distingué sous tant d rapports. Cet habile officier a eu la bonté de me communiquer,