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PLATE VII. 



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



Rico 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 Ridge across St. Lucia to the Barbados Ridge. 



PLATE VIII. 



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

 Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., Hydrographer 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, Watting Island, Rum Cay, Mariguana to 

 Crooked Island and Caicos Banks, 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 Hydrographic Chart No. 946, 

 Admiralty Chart No. 393. 



Crooked Island Bank. 



Caicos Bank. 



Great and Little Inagua Islands. 



Mariguana Island. 



Turk's Islands Bank. 



The northern part of the same bank, to show the mass of heads left to the 

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

 Turk land. Reduced from Hydrographic Chart No. 1000. 



Mouchoir Bank. 



Silver Bank. 



Mira por vos Bank. 



Navidad Bank. 

 Fig 11. Conception Island and Rum Cay. 

 Fig. 12. Watliug Island. 



PLATE X. 



From Hydrographic Charts Nos. 26", 26% 944, and 946. 

 Fig 1. Little Bahama Bank. See Admiralty Chart No. 399, for a larger scale. 

 Fig. 2. The northern extremity of the eastern part of Great Bahama Bank, including 



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



of New Providence. 



