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The Light House Engineer
Thirteenth District

Portland, Oregon Jan. 23, 1873

Chairman Light House Board
Washington, D.C

Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge
receipt of letters from your office
of 6" & 7" Jan'y , relating to
supposed inaccuracies in the
Notice to Mariners of Cape
Foulweather Light House, Oregon.
In all the points raised I was
governed by the USCS Coast Pilots
of Oregon,1869.

The Coast Pilot says of Yaquina
Point (Cape Foulweather),page
130, it is in latitude 44 degrees
40' North, and longitude 124
degrees 04' West", as stated
in the notice to Mariners.
Again, page 132, "The Cape
(Yaquina Point, or Cape
Fowlweather) is in latitude
44 degrees 40' North, and
longtitude 124 degrees 04"
West",(both approximately
SE" This seems sufficient
authority for the location
given.

The longitude of Yaquina
Lt. Ho. (or entrance to
Yaquina River) is given on
page 129 of the Coast Pilot as
124 degrees 04' west, making
Yaquina L.H. due south
from Cape Foulweather L.H.,
as its true bearing. A
tracing in my office covers
the variation as 20 degrees
04"east in 1868, is probably
correct, having been made
for Col. Williamson, and was
all the authority I could
find on the subject. Assuming
this to be the correct variation,
the Magnetic bearing of
Yaquina Lt. Ho. from Cape
Foulweather Lt. Ho. would be
20 degrees 04' east of south,
by points, S by E 3/4 E, as
given in the notice to mariners.

The C.S. Chart just received
gives the distance of Cape
Perpetua to Cape Fowlweather
as 24 miles(nautical)
instead of 21 in the notice -