194 THE SUNKEN LAND OF BUS. — POOLE. 



our doors, we are desirous of recording any new discovery 

 regarding its currents, its depths and shallows, and its inhabit- 

 ants and their haunts. 



A few yeirs ag3 public interest was aroused in Atlantic 

 soundings by the discovery of submarine peaks directly north 

 of the Azores and near where, on old charts, the doubtful Chaucer 

 shoal is marked. To this locality was given the name of the 

 Faraday Hills. These hills were found to be surrounded on the 

 east and west and to the north by waters of 2000 fathoms and 

 over, thus giving to the mountain range an elevation of nearly 

 8000 feet above the general bottom of the ocean in that section 

 of the Atlantic. 



The soundings by the " Minia " last summer, recalled the 

 discovery of the Faraday Hills, and in a popular way a reference 

 was made to them in one of the monthly periodicals, but so far 

 as I am aware, no accurate statement regarding them has as yet 

 been published. 



Memorandum of soundings on a line northward from the 

 Azores : 



Latitude Longitude 



N. W. 



A depth of 770 fms. with deep water east 



and west 60" 33' 



A doubtful shoal — The Sunken Land of Bus, 



Atlantic Ocean Pilot, p. 240 CV 35' 



Hill region located 1903, by S. S. " Minia," 



depth G30 fms. itc 53 22' 35M 2, 



A doubtful shoal — Chaucei" 



Faraday Hills, depth 714-730 fms. Arc 49° 26' 28° 42 



Corvo, an island of the Azores 40° 34° 



In the foregoing table it will be noted that the shoaler 

 waters between the 40th and 60th parallels of latitude lie 

 in a due north and south course of the mean longitude of 

 32'^ west. 



