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CHAPTER IV.
ST. THOMAS TO BERMUDAS.
DredLng in moderate depths in the West Indian Seas.—New Blind
Crustaceans.-Deep-sea Cumh. - Hyalonema toxeres . -An accident.
—A deep sounding.—The Miller CasellaThermometers.-Tempera-
tures.—Arrival at Bermudas.—History of the I s la n d s -T h e ir
general Appearance.—‘ Bed ’ and ‘ b lu e ’ Birds. — The Corals
which form the Eeefs.—The Geology of Bermudas.—General
Nelson’s d e s c r ip tio n . — H io lia n Rocks. - Calcareous concretions
simulating Fossils.—The Topography of the Islands—Their P ro ducts—
Their Climate—Their Vegetation.
A p p e n d i x A .-R e p o r t from Professor Abel, F .E .S ., to H. E. General
Lefroy, C.B., F.R.S-, on the Character and Composition of Samples
of Soil from Bermudas.
A p p e n d i x B.—Abstract of Temperatnre-ohservations taken at
Bermudas from the year 1855 to the year 1873.
On Saturday the 15th of March, before going in to
the harbour of St. Thomas, a sounding was taken in
450 fathoms off the Island of Sombrero. The hottom
brouo-ht up by the sounding macliine was globigerina
mud largely mixed with broken shells, chiefly
those of pteropods. The dredge was put over early
and veered to 1000 fatlioms. At noon it was hauled
up' half-filled with calcareous ooze. It was again
sent down, and hronght np in the afternoon with
a like freight. These dredgings, which we did not
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