. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. xu INTRODUCTION. to put into Key West. From there, when the weather moder- ated, we started for Kingston, Jamaica, calling at Havana for the purpose of making a couple of hauls on the Pentacrinus ground discovered by Sigsbee off the Morro Light. (Fig. B.). Fig. B. —Morro Castle (Havana), with modem limestone terrace in foreground. We made two casts of the dredge, passing from 175 to 400 fathoms, and obtained a few specimens of Pentacrinus. We kept on along the northern shore of Cuba, through the Old Bahama Ch
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. xu INTRODUCTION. to put into Key West. From there, when the weather moder- ated, we started for Kingston, Jamaica, calling at Havana for the purpose of making a couple of hauls on the Pentacrinus ground discovered by Sigsbee off the Morro Light. (Fig. B.). Fig. B. —Morro Castle (Havana), with modem limestone terrace in foreground. We made two casts of the dredge, passing from 175 to 400 fathoms, and obtained a few specimens of Pentacrinus. We kept on along the northern shore of Cuba, through the Old Bahama Channel, without stopping to sound or dredge, Pour- tales having in former years dredged and sounded from the " Bibb," Acting Master Piatt, U. S. N., over the greater part of this line. In the dredgings taken off the southeastern end of Jamaica we did not bring up anything of great importance. From Ja- maica we were obliged, owing to the strong trades, to keep on toward St. Thomas, without either sounding or trawling till off Porto Rico. During the winter months the trades blow suffi- ciently hard to make dredging and sounding quite uncomfortable on a vessel of the size of the " ; We therefore had no opportunity of adding anything to the hydrography of that part of the Caribbean Sea. The region over which we chiefly worked this year reached from St. Thomas to Trinidad. Over a limited area like this, it was possible to cover the ground very satisfactorily. The work done off the principal islands began usually at the hundred- fathom line, and extended into, the deepest water off the lee side of the Caribbean Islands. But little could be done in the way of dredging in the passages between the islands or to the wind- ward of them, omno- to the strono; trades. While working- off. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may no
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