I06 DEEP-SEA SOUNDING. 



anchored off Bridgetown, having about five tons of coal 

 remaining in the bunkers. 



We had steamed and sailed from Montevideo 5031 

 miles and had taken 72 casts, of which 49 were between 

 2 and 3 J miles in depth. Of these 14 were between 2 

 and 2^ statute miles in depth, 16 between 2^ and 3 

 miles, and 19 between 3 and 3^ miles in depth. 



On the following morning, the 27th, the Enterprise 

 steamed into the inner harbor, saluted the port with 

 twenty-one guns, and also the broad pennant of Com- 

 modore FitzRoy, commander-in-chief of the British 

 flying squadron, consisting of the Active (flag-ship). 

 Calypso, Volage, and Rover. H. M. S. Bellerophon, 

 Captain Fitzgerald, was also in port. I was dehghted 

 to find in command of the Volage my old acquaintance 

 Captain Johnstone, whom I last met in command of 

 H. M. S. Dryad at Tamatave, Madagascar, in 1883. 



As soon as possible the ship was coaled, and on the 

 2d of March we were under way for St. Thomas, where 

 we arrived on the night of the 4th. We sailed on the 

 following day for the United States, after having taken 

 on board a few tons of coal. 



On the 6th of March, when in lat. 19° 53' N., long. 

 65° 45' W., we sounded in 4529 fathoms, a depth of 

 more than five statute miles, bringing up a good speci- 

 men of bottom, consisting of brown ooze. We began 

 this cast at 5.55 a.m., reached bottom at 7, and finished 

 at 8.25 A.M. This cast was forty-two miles from the 

 position of the deepest cast ever taken in the Atlantic, 



