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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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Following is a list of reported dangers over or near which the depths 

 were found in the positions given : 



List of reported dangers. 



Nanie. 



Orion Shoal 



Asliton Shoal 



Jferseveranza Shoal 



Mourand Shoal 



Leighton E,ock 



Loos Shoal 



Breakers 



Vlgia 



Georgia Shoal 



Tribune Shoal 



Powhatan Shoal . . . 



Doubtful 



Sancho Pardo Shoal 



Albatross Shoal 



Vigia 



Huntley Shoal 



Latitude 



Longitude 



north. 



west. 



O ' // 



34 48 45 



O f II 



72 25 00 



33 50 20 



71 42 00 



31 15 42 



67 39 10 



24 35 14 



65 13 07 



17 39 30 



73 22 15 



17 48 00 



73 34 15 



12 54 40 



66 11 10 



12 10 30 



66 11 00 



Many soundings. | 



12 11 30 



74 27 30 



11 11 00 



75 50 30 



14 53 40 



80 20 00 



Off Cape San Antonio. | 



22 49 20 



84 15 00 



23 06 00 



83 03 45 



30 46 00 



78 35 00 



Depth. 



Fathoms. 



2,462 



2, 953 



2,787 



3,006 



2, 490 



2,369 



2, 768 



2,707 



(Least) 17 



2,057 



1,195 



1,151 



Many. 



950 



625 



470 



The soundings were such as to prove the non-existence of all except 

 the Georgia Bank off the east end of Jamaica, which had been recently 

 searched for by several vessels. It was originally discovered by Capt. 

 John S. Holt, of the American brig Georgia, in 1867, who reported 14 

 fathoms in about latitude 17o 46' K, longitude 75o 45' W. An exten- 

 sive and careful search was made for this, resulting in the discovery of 

 a bank with a least depth of 17 fathoms a little to the southward of the 

 reported position, in latitude 17^ 36' to 17° 44' N., longitude 75o 40' to 

 750 45' W. The Navy Department has given it the name of Albatross 

 Bank. This must not be confounded with the Albatross Shoal off the 

 northwestern shore of Cuba, which was reported by the German gun- 

 boat of that name and not subsequently found. 



One hundred soundings were taken off Cape San Antonio, extending 

 to just beyond the range of the light, with deep water everywhere (up 

 to 1,200 fathoms), and Sancho Pardo Shoal has, in consequence, been 

 expunged from the charts of the Hydrographic Office, IsTavy Depart? 

 ment. 



Six lines of soundin gs were run across the Caribbean Sea, four between 

 the Leeward Islands and the Main, and diagonal lines on and off the 

 coast of the United States of Colombia. The eastern part of the Carib- 

 bean Sea is the deepest, the greatest depth being 2,844 fathoms, in lati- 

 tude 130 25' K, longitude 660 25' W. Off the Honduras coast, however, 

 still deeper water was found, there being 3,169 fathoms at 60 miles 

 southwest of the Grand Cayman. 



An interesting discovery was that of a submarine ridge connecting 

 the islands of Santa Cruz and Puerto Eico, the least depth on which 

 was 578 fathoms and the greatest 900^ while on either side was found 

 over 2fiQQ f9;thoms. 



