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Notes from the “Challenger”

1873; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 8; Issue: 203 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/008400a0

1476-4687

WYVILLE THOMSON,

Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

VII. ON Monday the 30th of June we sounded in 1,000 fathoms; about 114 miles westward from Fayal. The dredge was put over early in the forenoon, and came up half filled with a grey sandy ooze with a large proportion depth of 2,200 fathoms, and as these crustaceans are our most interesting acquisitions during the voyage between Bermudas and the Açores, I will abstract a brief description of them from his notes.