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SCIENCE. 



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tervals of about sixty miles, the average depth found was 378 fathoms, in latitude 31° 02' south, 



being about 2,000 fathoms. In latitude 31° 22' longitude 34° 27' west." 



south, longitude 36° 39' west, the water shoaled to This bank, which it is proposed to call Enter- 



1 469 fathoms ; and the next cast, taken in latitude prise bank, extends about 150 miles in longitude. 



DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS IN THE ATLANTIC. 



U.S.S. Enterprise, Commander A. S. Barker 



U.S.S. Essex, Commander W.S.Schley 



British ship Challenger, Commander G. S. Nares 



German ship Gazelle, Capt. V. Schleinitz 



Jf<ir///Tidea SectlnveZ Cap?. »/' Cmnd Ifope 



PROFILE OF OCEAN-BED BETWEEN MONTEVIDEO AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AS SHOWN BY THE DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS 



OF THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. 



81° 15' south, longitude 35° 42' west, was only 547 

 fathoms. From this position casts were taken at 

 intervals of five miles or thereabouts until over 

 the shoalest part of the bank. The least depth 



It may be much shoaler in other places than those 

 sounded over, as its extent in latitude is not 

 known, and there have been no soundings in that 

 neighborhood which will admit of any generaliza- 



