. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. AGASSIZ: BAHAMAS. 175 In the West Indies_, beginning with the Bermudas, is the mass upon which the so called atoll has been formed, — an island rising out of a 10° n'. CLIPPERTON ISLAND. water. Best boat landing on the north side of the island. On the chart " Deep water" is marked in the atoll to the westward of the trachytic rock near the south- ern face of the island. " Great coral ridges alternating with deep water " is the legend of the central part of the lagoon. A few insignificant islets are
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. AGASSIZ: BAHAMAS. 175 In the West Indies_, beginning with the Bermudas, is the mass upon which the so called atoll has been formed, — an island rising out of a 10° n'. CLIPPERTON ISLAND. water. Best boat landing on the north side of the island. On the chart " Deep water" is marked in the atoll to the westward of the trachytic rock near the south- ern face of the island. " Great coral ridges alternating with deep water " is the legend of the central part of the lagoon. A few insignificant islets are mapped in the lagoon near its northwest face. The atoll is pear shaped, its axis running south- east to northwest; its greatest breadth is over one and a half miles, and its length more than two. On Mr. Jensen's chart the island is represented as a narrow ring of coral rock surrounding the lagoon. This dry belt is nowhere more than seven hundred feet wide, except to the southwest of the trachytic rock, wiiere tliere is a short spit ex- tending into the lagoon, the point of which is perhaps fifteen hundred feet from the outer edge of the island. At several points the coral rock belt is not more than two hundred feet wide, and along the greater part of the southwest coast it varies be- tween four and five hundred feet in width. A similar narrow stretch of perhaps three quarters of a mile extends along the north side. Tiiis connects the two broadei shore tracts of the eastern and northwestern parts of the 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 not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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