NEW LONDON, CONN., Dec. 6, 1897.- The New London Board of Trade, through its regatta committee, has just completed a new survey of the Thames River with a view to ascertaining officially the capabilities of that course for intercollegiate boat races.

With the start and finish at the same points as in the four-mile course for Harvard-Yale races in former years the survey shows that after the first half mile the course follows the centre of the channel thus giving every indication that the new course would prove even faster than the old. Measurements were taken at different points on the river, with the United States Government map of the Thames as a guide. The width of the river from shore to shore is given as follows: Start, 2000 feet; 1-2 mile, 2500 feet; 1 mile, 1250 feet; 1 1-2 mile, 2250 feet; 2 mile (directly opposite United States naval station), 1300 feet; 2 1-2 mile, 2700 feet; 3 mile, 2300 feet; 3 1-2 mile, 2700 feet; 4 mile (finish), 1450 feet.

From the start the new course runs 1 1-2 miles straight away; at the 1 12 mile it is 400 feet west of the old course and then deflects to the east (left) side of the old course, for 3-4 mile, and thence 1 3-4 miles straight away to the finish, which is just north of the Thames River draw-bridge. This course offers a depth of water after the first half-mile varying from 18 to 50 feet.