Author: Albert Smith Barker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780267851317

Excerpt from Deep-Sea Sounding: A Brief Account of the Work Done by the Enterprise in Enterprise, Deep-Sea Sounding During 1883-1886 Standing against the wall of the Hydrographic Office are two large plaster casts Showing the contour of the bottoms of the North and South Atlantic Oceans with their submarine peaks, plateaux, and depressions as revealed by deep-sea soundings. Prominent thereon are two submarine peaks in the South Atlantic Ocean and an extensive sand-bank several hundred miles from, the coast of South America, Which were discovered by the Enterprise While on a cruise around the world from 1883 to 1886 When deep-sea soundings were taken across the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans. There is also shown to the northward of Porto Rico the deepest depression yet discovered in the North Atlantic, and into this the Enterprise sounded, bringing up a specimen of the bottom from a depth of 4529 fathoms, the position of the cast being Within 40 miles of that taken by Com mander Brownson in the Blake, Which Showed a depth. Of 4561 fathoms and Which to this day remains the deep est cast ever taken in the Atlantic Ocean. As little is known of the work of the Enterprise, I have concluded to publish a brief account of the voyage in so far as it relates to deep-sea sounding, thinking it may be of some interest to the naval service at large. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.