VI. On the tides at Malta

Abstract

Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, K. C. B., late Superintendent of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, and formerly Naval Commander of Malta, before leaving this country for a foreign station, placed in my hands the original record of tidal observations made by a self-registering tide-gauge at La Valetta, extending through one entire lunation and through parts of others. On the location and construction and use of the instrument I have received from Sir Cooper Key the following notes:— “The place of the tide-gauge was about 40 or 50 yards from the entrance of the Somerset Dock (which is in the French Creek, so called by us), on the western side or left hand when entering the dock. A channel about a yard wide, and 8 or 10 yards long, led to a deep recess in which the gauge was placed. No ripple was felt from the effect either of wind or of ships moving in the neighbourhood.