Excerpt from Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U. S. Brig. Dolphin: Made Under Direction of the Navy Department, by Lieut. S. P. Lee, United States Navy The brigantine Dolphin was put in commission August having been slightly repaired for five or six months service, after a long cruise in the East Indies, from which she had recently returned. Relieved on the 26th of September from the confidential orders of July 29 and August 29, relating to the Lepez expedition; and hav ing received the balance of the sounding line from the contractors, (225, 000 fathoms single size, and fathoms triple size fishing line, in all fathoms of sounding line, ) the Dolphin dropped down from the New York navy yard to Sandy Hook, for the purpose of swinging ship to ascertain the local deviation of the compasses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.