GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE CANAL ZONE. 



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ANTIGUA- liARBUDA BANK. 



The islands of Antigua and Barbuda rise from a bank which is 

 bounded by the 100-fathom curve and is 50 miles in length along a 

 north-south line, and from 13 to 20 miles in width. Antigua is near 

 the southern and Barbuda near the northern end, with water from 

 15 to 18 fathoms in depth between them. (vSee text fig. 9.) 



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The shore line of Antigua is deeply indented by numerous bays 

 and harbors, as St. John, Five Islands, and Falmouth harbors, and 

 Willoughby, Nonsuch, and Belfast bays (pi. 68, figs. A, B, and 

 text fig. 10). The absence of terraces and elevated wave-cut cliffs 

 is especially noteworthy. The discovery m St. John Harbor, at a 

 depth of 20 feet below sea level, of a 4-foot bed of peat, which 



