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PLATE VII. 



Fig. 1. Section along the Virgin Island Bank from the eastern extremity of Porto 



Kico to off Anegada. 

 Fig. 2. North and south Section across the Virgin Bank through the Island of St. 



John. 

 Fig. 3. Section from the west side of Saba Bank to Saba and across the Anguilla- 



St. Bartholomew Bank. 

 Fig. 4. Section across Montserrat and Antigua. 

 Fig. 5. Section across Martinique. 

 Fig. 6. Section across Grenada. 



Fig. 7. Section across the Grenadines Bank to off Barbados. 

 Fig. 8. Section from Aves Island across to Dominica. 

 Fig. 9. Section from Aves Kidge across St. Lucia to the Barbados Ridge. 



PLATE VIIL 



Contour Chart of tlie Caribbean Sea, prepared by the Ilydrographic Bureau in 1885, 

 Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., Ilydrographer for the " Three Cruises 

 of the Blake." 



PLATE IX. 



The Smaller Banks from Navidad to Watling Island, to illustrate the transition from 

 such islands as Great Inagua, Watling Island, Rum Cay, Mariguana to 

 Crooked Island and t!aicos lianks, to such banks as Turk's Islands and 

 Mira por vos Banks, and finally to the three easternmost sunken Banks 

 of ]Mouchoir, Silver, and Navidad, From Ilydrographic Chart No. 910, 

 Admiralty Chart No. 393. 



Fig. 1. Crooked Island Bank. 



Fig. 2. Caic(« Bank. 



Fig. 3. Great and Little Inagua Islands. 



Fig. 4. Mariguana Island. 



Fig. 5. Turk's Islands Bank. 



Fig G. The northern part of the same bank, to show the mass of beads left to the 

 soutli of Grand Turk Island by the disintegration of the former Grand 

 Turk land. Reduced from Ilydrographic Chart No. 1000. 



Fig. 7. Mouchoir Bank. 



Fig. 8. Silver liank. 



Fig. 9. Mira por vos Bank. 



Fig 10. Navidad Bank, 



Fig. 11. Conception Island and Rum Cny. 



Fig. 12. Watling Island. 



PLATE X. 



From Hydrographic Charts Nos. 26*, 26°, 944, and 946. 

 Fig 1. Little Bahama Bank. See Admiralty Chart No. 390, for a larger scale. 

 Fig. 2. The northern extremity of the eastern pnrt of Great Bahama B;ink. including 



New Providence to Eleuthera, and the Middle Ground to the southeast 



of New Providence. 



