Letter
João de Andrade Corvo to Benjamin Moran, December 9, 1876
[Inclosure 3 in No. 111.—Translation.]
Mr. Corvo to Mr. Moran.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Direction of Consulates and Commercial Affairs.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of the 5th instant, in which you inform me of the discovery of a coral-capped reef which the commander of the United States ship Gettysburg discovered on the 17th of November last on his passage from Fayal to Gibraltar.
The competent department and persons interested in this will give publicity to the contents of the note in which your excellency communicates this important discovery.
I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to your excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.
Foreign Office, 9th December, 1876.
JOÃO DE ANDRADE CORVO.
Mr. Benjamin Moran, &c., &c., &c.
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