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THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. 



CHAP. VI 



fathoms, that was the temperature of the whoL 

 mass of water beneath, down to the greatest deptl 

 explored." The temperature at 100 fathoms vari< 

 very little from 13 C. (55'5 Fahrenheit), and tin 

 Mediterranean attains in many places a depth of u] 

 wards of 1,500 fathoms, so that here we have the 

 strange phenomenon of an underlying mass of water, 

 1,400 fa/thorns deep, of a uniform moderate tempera 

 ture ; a state of things singularly different from thai 

 which obtains at like depths in the Atlantic. Dr 

 Carpenter's ingenious speculations as to the caus 

 of this difference will be considered later. 





VAAY CHURCH IN SUDERO. 



