ү FroRA ОЕ NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
deep, but it is indented on the north by a tongue of the ocean which 
extends nearly two thirds across it and has a depth of from seven 
hundred to twelve hundred fathoms. Along the western edge of 
this tongue of ocean lies Andros, while New Providence is on 
the eastern side, twenty-five miles or more distant. Оп the eastern 
border of Great Bahama Bank lie the long narrow islands known 
as Eleuthera, Cat Island, Exuma and Long Island, the first two 
being separated from the third by another indentation in the bank 
from the south known as Exuma Sound. То the southeast of 
Cat Island are the isolated islands of Rum Cay and San Salvador, 
or Watlings Island, while east ofthe southern end of the Great 
Bahama Bank is the much smaller bank on which are situated 
Crooked, Acklin and Fortune Islands. Still farther southeast lie 
Mariguana, the Caicos bank and islands and Turks islands, while 
the entirely isolated island of Inagua is off to the west. Inagua 
lies in a latitude of about 21? and is the most southerly of the 
Bahamas. It is about fifty miles from the east end of Cuba апа 
about síxty miles north of the western end of Haiti. From both 
islands it is separated by water over fifteen hundred fathoms in 
depth. 
The little Bahama bank is separated from Florida by a dis- 
tance of fifty miles and a depth of less than 450 fathoms of water. 
The Great Bahama Bank extends west and northwest of Andros 
for a distance of from fifty to seventy miles. At its western edge 
it is only forty miles distant from Florida and the channel is about 
450 to 500 fathoms deep. 
The Great Bahama Bank is separated from Cuba on the 
south by the Old Bahama Channel, about 300 fathoms in depth, 
the narrowest part of which is about twelve miles. Beyond this 
point the water deepens rapidly to 500 and 1,000 fathoms. 
The following is quoted from Professor Hitchcock’s admirable 
account : “ If from any cause, the depth of the water of the ocean 
should be lessened by тоо fathoms, there would be exposed the 
Little Bahama and Great Bahama banks and several of the smaller 
banks to the southeast. Тһе Bahamas would be separated from 
the surrounding islands and from Florída and the important chan- 
nels would still occupy the same places. If reduced by 300 
fathoms, the Great Bahama bank would be united with Cuba. If 
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