The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 362 MEXICO, CENTEAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. on the nortli coast, but tliey are far less regular, nor are they disposed parallel with the shore. Here the coralline structures are spre id out to a great distance from the land, wherever the relatively smooth water is not exposed to the scouring action of marine currents. Thus reefs are somewhat rare on the part of the coast washed by the deep Windward Channel between Cape Maisi and Cape Cruz. They are also absent along the middle section of the south
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 362 MEXICO, CENTEAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. on the nortli coast, but tliey are far less regular, nor are they disposed parallel with the shore. Here the coralline structures are spre id out to a great distance from the land, wherever the relatively smooth water is not exposed to the scouring action of marine currents. Thus reefs are somewhat rare on the part of the coast washed by the deep Windward Channel between Cape Maisi and Cape Cruz. They are also absent along the middle section of the south coast owing to the neighbourhood of the deep Yucatan pass Ige and to the swirling waters of a lateral current. For the same Fig. 171.—Jaedinillos. Scale 1 : 1,000,000. Depths. Sands exposed at low water. 2J to 500 Fathoms. 25 Miles. reason no coral reefs occur towards the western extremity of the island swept by the waters of Corrientes Bay, so named from the currents which impinge on this coast and are thence deflected to Yucatan Channel. Manzanillo Bay, en the contrary, is more than half covered with reefs, which are continued westwards by the so-called Cayos de las Doce Léguas, the ' Twelve League cays.' Farther on the Isle of Pines is connected with a labyrinth of reefs and islets, of which the best known are those of the Jardines Bunk and the Jardinillos, forming a seaward prolongation of the marsh of Zapata. In the
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