MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIK 



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" The sketch map, fig. 2, will serve to recall the 

 position of the Island as regards the neighbouring shores. 

 Its northernmost point is 16 miles distant from the nearest 

 headland of the Scottish coast, while its closest approach 

 to the Cumberland shore is 31 miles, to that of Ireland in 

 Co. Down 31 miles, and to the Welsh coast near Holvhead 



50 Fathi 

 76 "Fa-tAs. 



Fig. 2.— Sketch Map and Section of the Irish Sea-Basin 

 (Prof. W. A. Herdman, Report Brit. Assoc, 1896). 



45 miles. The same map shows roughly the contours of 

 the surrounding sea-bottom. To the eastward of the Island 

 the depth is nowhere more than 20 fathoms, to the north- 

 ward it rarely reaches 30 fathoms, to the southward it 



