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Monatsberichte d. K. Akad. In 1856, a very remarkable addition to our knowledge of the nature of the sea bottom in high northern latitudes was made by Professor Bailey of West Point. Still more complete information has been obtained concerning the nature of the sea bottom in the cold zone around the south pole.
MITSCHERLICH, Monatsberichte d. Kon. Preuss. Akad. d. Wissen, eu Berlin, and Rapports annuels da Berzelius, Paris, 1843, 3rd year.
Nevertheless the composition of the deep-sea mud of this intermediate zone is entirely different from that of the circumpolar regions. The first exact information respecting the nature of this mud at depths greater than 1,000 fathoms was given by Ehrenberg, in the account which he published in the "Monatsberichte" of the Berlin Academy for the year 1853, of the soundings obtained by Lieut.
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