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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Vol. II.—MARCH, 1868.—No. 1. 
ene SCRI DOD 
A NATURALIST IN BRAZIL. 
BY C. FRED. HARTT. 


SANTA BARBARA DOS ABROLHOS. 
Tue shore-line, where ocean and land meet, is rarely ever 
the edge of a continent. Both North and South America 
have a submerged border, in some places very wide, in 
others very narrow. Thus, off the coast of New England, 
the water does not deepen immediately at the shore-line, 
but the sea-bottom slopes off very gradually, sometimes, the 
water becoming ever deeper and deeper, until at a distance 
of many miles from the shore the true brink of the great 
valley occupied by the waters of the ocean is reached, and 

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by the PEABODY ACADEMY OF 
SCIENCE, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 
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