No. 12. [From Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. 1891, Vol. xvm. p. 131.) 



ON THE COMPOSITION OF SOME DEEP-SEA 

 DEPOSITS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN 



THE muds, the analyses of which are reported in this paper, 

 were collected in September 1879, during the laying of a cable 

 between Marseilles and Algiers by the India Rubber, Gutta- 

 Percha, and Telegraph Works Company, Limited, of Silvertown, 

 the ship employed being the s.s. "Dacia." The numbers of 

 the samples are those which were affixed to them on board 

 ship. Nos. 31 to 43 are all from localities lying near the 

 African coast; Nos. 45 and 46 are from positions between the 

 African coast and the Balearic Bank. Nos. 64 and 65 are from 

 the Balearic Bank, and Nos. 86 to 89 are from the Gulf of 

 Lyons. The positions and depths are collected in Table I. 



TABLE I. Giving the Position of the Ship where each Sample 

 of Mud was Collected, and the Depth of Water there. 



