Conway; – A List of Minerals collected on those Shores, and since presented to the College Museum of Edinburgh, the Geological Society of London, and the Royal Institution of Liverpool; – A Notice, by Mr. George Birnie, Surgeon, on the Climate of the Western Coasts of South America and Mexico; and a Sketch, by Captain Hall himself, of the Duties of the Naval Commander-in-Chief on that Station, before the appointment of Consuls.
III. Travels in North America in the years 1827 and 1828.
IV. An Account of the Geology of the Table Mountain.
V. A letter to Captain Kater, detailing experiments made with an invariable Pendulum in South America, and other places, for determining the Figure of the Earth.
VI. A Series of Observations made on a Comet seen at Valparaiso.
VII. An Account of the Ferry across the river Tay at Dundee, published in Jameson’s Journal.
VIII. A Paper upon the Use of Chain Cables.
IX. A Sketch of the Professional and Scientific Objects which might be aimed at in a Voyage of Research.
X. A Paper on the Method of laying down Ships’ Tracks on Sea-Charts; – published in Brewster’s Philosophical Journal.
XI. A Letter on the Trade Winds; published in the Appendix to Daniell’s Meteorological Essays. In this paper, he describes the actual direction and variations of these winds, and gives a theory of their action, which he conceives may be useful to practical seamen[1].
Captain Hall married. Mar. 1, 1825, Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Sir John Hunter, his Majesty’s Consul-General in Spain, and by that lady has issue.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.
JAMES WALLIS, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1817.]
We first find this officer serving as senior lieutenant of the Vincejo brig. Captain John Wesley Wright, when that vessel was sent to cruise between the Loire and l’Orient, for the purpose of carrying on the communications between this country and the French royalists, which led to the mysterious death of her gallant commander in the tower of the Temple at Paris.
The Vincejo was a deep-waisted brig, formerly Spanish,
- ↑ Nos. IV. V. and VI. were published in the Reports of the Royal Societies of Edinburgh and London.
