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the greatest known depth south of latitude 30° S. ; it has 

 been distrusted and not entered on any sea charts ; 

 Murray, however, strenuously insists on its reliability. 

 Future explorations will show whether Biscoe and Bell- 

 ingshausen have really seen land, and if it be so, whether 

 it was a continuous coast, as at Enderby Land and Kemp 

 Land, or a succession of separate islands. Then we shall 

 also know whether or not an uninterrupted continental 

 coast extends beyond Enderby Land to the south-west 

 and is joined in high latitudes to the east coast of 

 Graham's Land. There is as little to be said against this 

 theory as for it, or perhaps even less, as will be shown 

 in the next chapter, when the directions of the prevailing- 

 winds are discussed. 



