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Benjamin Moran to João de Andrade Corvo, December 23, 1876
No. 255. Mr. Moran to Mr. Fish.
Legation of the United States, Lisbon, December 23, 1876. (Received January 13, 1877.)
No. 111.]
Sir: For the information of the Department, I inclose herewith copies of a brief correspondence which has recently passed between myself and Mr. Corvo, in respect to the coral-reef discovered on the 17th November last by Lieutenant-Commander Gorringe, of the United States ship Gettysburg, between Fayal and Cape St. Vincent. Commander Gorringe wrote me from Gibraltar on the subject on the 27th of November and intimated a wish to have the discovery made known here. Believing that the facts might prove useful to commerce and science, I sent them to the Portuguese Government. I have observed that an account of the discovery is going the rounds of the English newspapers.
I have, &c.,
BENJAMIN MORAN.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.