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brero, and a fossil species in St. Croix. There is no representative 
of the genus on the Anguilla Bank or to the south of it. 
“The exceptions are curious. acroceramus Gosset and Stro- 
phia uva are found in Curagao ! 
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he greatest depth in the Gulf of Florida, between Key 
est and Havana, is within five miles of the latter, 800 fathoms 
(4,800 feet), and I have already stated that there is a depth in the 
Nicholas Channel, between Salt Key Bank and Cuba, of 534 
fathoms (3,204 feet). 
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the Pedro Bank, across the Carribean Sea to Aspinwall (a dis- 
tance of about 550 miles), shows the instructive fact that, with no 
Jamaica toward the coast of the Isthmus of Panama. About 60 
miles from Manzanilla Point (N. E. of Aspinwall), the depth a8 
1,215 fathoms (7,290 feet). The bottom then rises comparatively 
rapidly,—the depth at about forty miles from Aspinwall being 
677 fathoms (4,062 feet), and at about twenty miles, 227 fathoms 
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