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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Natural Science 1895

1896

1 on The Mean Temperature of the Deep Waters of the Bay of Bengal." Since then owing to the survey of the Lncoadives and the frequent passage of the "Investigator" past this group a large number of deep soundings and temperatures have been accumulated in the Laccadive area. [...] On the western and southern side of the island a long line of coral-sand rock is exposed on the beach as though the preceding south-west monsoon wind had removed the loose sand in the neighbourhood ; also towards the south end a line of it is visible in the lagoon thirty feet from the shore while on both sides of the sandy spit forming the south point brken and dead branches of the bushes lie [...] 11 during ebb as follows—as soon as the level of the lagoon during ebb has fallen to the level of the encircling coral reef the remaining waters have to escape by the channel on the western side ; the current then is strong and the island lying in the track it rushes past with consideable velocity ; the waters of the lagoon are filled with sand carried in during flood and the eddy currents [...] Two islands are situated on the reef-flat one on the extreme nortls point and the other three-quarters of a mile from the edge of the reef on the south-east side of the atoll. [...] The tides are not strong in the Laccadive's; the flood sets to the norteast past the northen reefs and cost and south-cast in the neighbourhood of the southern ones that is in a course at right angles to the length of the reefs.
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Pages
145
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Frontmatter
i-iv The Natural History Secretary view
Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer ‘Investigator ’ Commander O.F. Oldham R.N. Commanding. Series II. No. 18.—i. The Topography of the Arabian Sea in the Neighbourhood of the Laccadives.ii. The Physical Features of Some of the Laccadive Islands with Suggestions as to their Mode of Formation.—By Commander C.F. Oldham B.N.
1-14 The Natural History Secretary view
On a New Species of Flying Lizard from Assam.—By A. Alcock M.B. C.M.Z.S. Superintendent of the Indian Museum
14-15 The Natural History Secretary view
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula.—By George King M.B. Ll.D. F.R.S. C.I.E. Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta
16-137 The Natural History Secretary view
Description of a New Lathraca from the Eastern Himalaya.—By Surgeon Caption H.A. Cummins Army Medical Staff
137-138 The Natural History Secretary view
Backmatter
i-i The Natural History Secretary view

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