Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 227
bank rises from an immense depth to within one hun-dred fathoms of the surface, and has perhaps been formed by thejoint action of a south-eastern and north-eastern current, whichmeet here. As the mainbody of the current does not flow overthis bank we may conclude its total depth to be much more… … along the western shores of Africa, and is called the South At-lantic current. It then enters the Bight, or Bay of Benin, and isdeflected westward, partly from the form of the coast and partlyby^he action of the Guinea current flowing from the north intothe same great bay. From the centre of this…
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