| Description | Daily observations of the tides, arranged on monthly tables, made near Fort Victoria, Ambon Island in the Maluku group, 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. Additional columns include Moon's declination. 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 Amboina...in the month of...' with the month and year added. Signed by the observers, top right: 'C: Krentebol', March-May; 'Johannes Antonie Kieffer', June-July; 'T.A.W. Vijgh', August-November; and 'T.A. Huller', December'. |