GERMAN OCEAN, OR NORTH SEA. 



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sea exhibits all the characteristic features of a great 

 bay, encumbered with numerous sand-banks. 



In the same manner, though not strictly con- 

 nected with our present purpose, we may observe, 

 that the English Channel deepens progressively 

 from Dover to its entrance, formed by the Land's- 

 End of England and the Isle of Ushant, on the 

 coast of France ; so that the Strait between Dover 

 and Calais may be said to form a point of partition 

 between two great inclined planes, forming the 

 bottom of these seas. 



Besides the longitudinal, or north and south sec- 

 tional line described above, we have also six other 

 sections delineated in an easterly and westerly di- 

 rection, across the accompanying chart, which are 

 as follow. One between the Shetland Islands and 

 the coast of Norway ; a second between Tarbetness 

 in Ross-shire and the Naze of Norway ; a third ex- 

 tends from the Frith of Forth to the coast of Den- 

 mark ; a fourth from the mouth of the river Tyne 

 to Sylt Island, also in Denmark ; a fifth from 

 Flamborough-Head, in Yorkshire, to the mouth of 

 the river Elbe ; and the sixth is from Yarmouth to 

 Egmond-op-Zee, on the coast of Holland. 



On examining the accompanying cross sections, 

 of the depths of water on the same parallel, they 

 will be found to vary considerably. It may, how- 

 ever, be stated as a general conclusion, that there 

 is a greater depth of water on the eastern and 

 western sides of the German Ocean, than its cen 



