text: " After expressing his gratitude for the good offices of her Majesty's consul at Panama and the services rendered to him by the officers of her Majesty's ship Victor with the aid of whose boats and the assistance of the master he made his survey of the bay of Limon obtained soundings and constructed his plan (the shores of which bay he says are therein laid down trigonometrically from a base of 5220 yards)--Mr Lloyd remarks thus "It will be seen by this plan that the distance from one of the best coves in respect to anchorage across the separating country from the Chagre and in the most convenient track is something less than three miles to a point in the river about three miles from its mouth