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more abrupt elevation from the sea-bed was presented in Bermuda. 
The deepest sounding yet made in the ocean was at a point eighty 
miles distant from these islands, where a depth of 3,875 fathoms 
was found. Five miles of rope was run out with the sounding ap- 
paratus, taking one hour and twelve minutes in its course. The 
other soundings taken around Bermuda prove it to be a peak, 
formed by coral animals, rising abruptly from the abysmal depth 
of 1,500 to 1,820 fathoms— comparable, as Dr. Carpenter observed, 
to the Matterhorn. Between the West Indies (St. Thomas) and 
the Canaries, nearly in the middle of the Atlantic, shallower depths 
were found, showing that a submarine ridge here exists. The 
depths over the ridge are 1,900 and 1,950 fathoms, whilst on either 
side of it a broad basin extends, deepening to 2,650 fathoms in the 
western basin, and 3,150 fathoms inthe eastern. In crossing from 
Bermuda to the latitude of New York, especial attention was di- 
rected to the Gulf-Stream, both as to the depth and temperature 
of the current. A sounding of 2,425 fathoms was obtained just 
within the southern edge of the famous stream. From serial tem- 
peratures taken at various depths in the stream, it was found that 
in this part of its course the warm water does not extend beyond 
100 fathoms in depth. It was found to be 57 miles broad, rapid 
only along the western edge, where there was a belt of water 15 
miles wide, running 34 to 4 miles an hour, and 3° Fahr. higher in 
temperature than the other parts of the stream.— American Journal 
of Science. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
A Human SKELETON FROM tHe Dituyrom.—M. Riviére who 
discovered the famous human skeleton at Mentone in 1872 has 
recently (March, 1873) exhumed another in the cavern of Baouné 
Roussée at Venti Niglia near Mentone in the South of France. 
The cavern is twenty-seven or twenty-eight metres above the level 
of the sea and about twelve metres deep. The ground is cove 
by a layer of red conglomerate about a metre in thickness. 
Beneath this layer are large blocks of stone which appeared to be 
piled up about the entrance and among these blocks were found 
the first traces of a human dwelling. Round about were scatte 
bones of the genera Cervus and Capra mixed with shells of Patella 
and Mytilus and a few stone and bone implements. At a depth 
of three and three-fourths metres below this upper habitation was 
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