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here she remained for one week, while various overhauls were made 

 and stores renewed, etc. 



On July 22, 1904, Horta was left behind after a week's stay, during Station 

 which time the gear was thoroughly overhauled. In Lat. 38° 15' N. 

 and Long. 28° 32' W., a sounding gave 472 fathoms, with a bottom 

 of volcanic mud and sand. The closing-net was also used from 

 450 fathoms upwards. A very light breeze, lasting throughout the 

 night, was against good sailing, but when at daylight on the next day 

 forty miles had been run from the last station, a sounding was made in Station 

 Lat. 37° 42' N., Long. 27° 37' W., and 1,000 fathoms of wire run out 

 without reaching bottom. At this depth, and at 800, 600, 400, 200, 

 and 100 fathoms, hauls were made with the closing-net. A brisk 

 wind sprang up from the north-west, and on July 24 at 7 a.m. the ship 

 was hove to in Lat. 37° 15' N. and Long. 26° 14' W., where a sounding station 

 gave 1,400 fathoms. The closing-net was put down to 1,400 fathoms, 

 but with the drifting of the ship the water had become shallower, the 

 net had been trailing on the bottom, kinks had got in the wire, and, 

 worse than all, the piston of the net had become bent. Consequently 

 the net had never opened, the messenger having stuck on the kinks. 

 The best part of the day was spent in repairs to the piston, therefore 

 the day was devoted to the collection of water samples from 

 1,200 fathoms upwards. A nice breeze from the north, lasting all Station 



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night, put the ship in Lat. 36° 54' N. and Long. 24° 56' W. early on 

 July 25, and a sounding gave 865 fathoms, with bottom of mud and 

 sand. Hauls with the closing-net were made at 600, 500, 400, 200, 

 and 100 fathoms. At 7.30 next morning Station 26 was reached station 

 in Lat. 36° 18' N., Long. 23° 53' W., and the closing-net was put" 

 down to 1,600, 1,400, 1,000, 700, 500, 300, and 100 fathoms; at 

 night the hot, calm day was succeeded by a strong westerly breeze, station 

 necessitating shortening sail ; at 8 a.m. on July 27 Lat. 35° 48' N., 

 Long. 22° 35' W., was reached, and the closing-net was put down to 

 1,600 fathoms, and afterwards to 1,200, 900, 600, 400, 200, and 

 100 fathoms. All the time the wind was rising and the swell pretty 

 sharp, so that the results of the clay's work were disappointing. 



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