| Description | Daily observations of the tides, arranged on monthly tables, made at Puala Chinco, or Cingkuak Island [Pulau Cingkuak], Indonesia. Columns for: date; heights of high water and low water in Dutch yards and English feet and inches [the latter not completed]; tidal range; wind direction and force; turn of stream [not completed]; and general remarks. With fields beneath the main table, for noting the type of timepiece used, and the type of barometer. A printed key is give for wind force abbreviations 0-12.
Each sheet is headed in English and Dutch: 'Register of Tides, observed at Poelo Chinco in the month of...' with the month and year added. Signed by the observers, top right: 'G.T. Fabritius', March-September; J. Der Laan, October-December. |