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DIAGRAMS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Storm, cautionary and wind direction signals. Weather signals. | Diagrams to illustrate the running lights, 333, 334, 335. Life Savings Service, diagrams to illustrate the manner of working the Breeches-buoy and Life-car, 346, 347. TABLES: For registering bearings when swinging ship, 11. Deviation of the standard Compass, 12. For converting points of the Compass and their fractional parts into degrees, 15, 16. | Of distances objects can be seen at sea, 17. For converting Statute miles into Nautical miles, and Nautical miles into Statute miles, 19. : Of distances on the St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario, 37. Of distances on Lake Erie from Buffalo, to Fort Gratiot, 286. Of distances on Lake Huron from Fort Gratiot to Old sort Mackinac, 294. Of distances on Lake Michigan and Green bay, 320. Length of a degree of longitude in different latitudes, 343. Showing the smallest locks on the several canals, 361. Showing the mean level of the lakes for a series of years, 363. APPENDIX. Pilot rules for the lakes and seaboard, 330 to 340. Running lights, diagrams, and the rule of the road at sea, 333 to 336. Rules relating to fog signals for steamers, sail vessels, and tow boats, 338. Steering and sailing rules, 338, 339. _ General rules for steamships meeting and crossing, 341, 342. The lead, 342. | Code of engine signals, 342, 343. Nautical and statute miles, 343. Life Saving Service, 345, 349. Treatment of frost-bites, 351. To measure distances by sound, 352. To determine the distance of an object on shore, when running along the land, 352. | The barometer, 352, 353. The thermometer, 353, 354. Instrumental and other local indications of approaching storms, 354, 355. Proverbs relating to clouds, 355. Proverbs relating to the moon, 357, 358. Proverbs relating to rain, 358. Proverbs relating to rainbow, 359. Proverbs relating to stars and meteors, 359, 360. Proverbs relating to the sun, 360. St. Clair Flats Ship-canal, 361. St. Mary's Falls Ship-canal, 362. Greatest depth of water on the lakes, 362. Area of the lakes, and their height above the sea, 363.