The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society Volume 14 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...water from seven different stations, nearly equidistant from each other all the way down: they were examined by Dr.'Giraud, Professor of Chemistry at Bombay, and the following were the results: --Dr. Giraud gives the following note of the saltness of the sea from a variety of other localities. From this it will be seen that the Mediterranean at Marseilles is of the same saltness as the Red Sea at Suez, while the Attlanic in the latitude of Canaries is more salt. Grs. Baltic 20.0 in 1000 Frith of Forth 30.0 Boulogne 32.0 Havre 36.0, . Bayonne 33.0, Marseilles 41.0 Atlantic, Canaries 44.0, " The following is from Dr. Lyon Playfair and Liebig's Report 1852 Sea Water. Port of Callao Algodon liar Dead Sea Cape Horn, same Spot Near Cape Horn Atlantic. Same Same.... Same North Sea 41 19W. 33 2SW 1 51 9 N.'3 34W. July The following are from specimens of Water taken by Lieut. Adams of the H. C. S. Victoria betwixt Suez and Bombay, October 1854. They were very carefully analized by Dr. Giraud. These experiments were made on water taken from 10 feet below the surface of the sea. We arc ignorant of the character of the water in its depth, but have no reason to suppose it to differ materially from that at the surface. From the specimens collected by Captain Adams, like those formerly taken by Mr. Morris and carefully analysed by Dr. Giraud, we have the following results. The water of the Gulf of Suez contains from 2 to 3 grains per Most likely where the Salt under Current of the Mediterranean rises to the surfaee. 1,000 more than that of the Sea of Mocha--and this again is Salter by 2 or 3 in the 1,000 than that of the outer ocoan. Passing the Straits, we find the same saltness to a certain extent to continue till we reach Aden. It has been ...