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WE left Santa Cruz on the evening of Friday, the 14th of February. The weather was bright and pleasant with a light breeze—force equal to about 5—from the northeast. Our course during the night lay nearly westward, and on the morning of the 17th we sounded, about 75 miles from Tenerifie, and 2,620 miles from Sombrero Island, the nearest point in the Virgin group, in 1,891 fathoms, with a bottom of grey globigerina ooze, mixed with a little volcanic detritus. The average of two Miller-Casella thermometers gave a bottom temperature of 2° C.
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THOMSON, W. Notes from the “Challenger” . Nature 8, 28–30 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008028a0
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