ut this peninsula is wave-formed upon living corals, whose growth andgradual stretch toward the south
cheap dr dre beats has been made known by Agassiz.
����I had an unsuccessful search for a similar story of the Bahamas, tolearn whether there were any probable changes within so recent a periodas four
monster beats sale hundred years.
����The common mind can see that all the rock there is coral, none ofwhich is in position. The surface, the caves, the chinks, and the numerouspot-holes are compact limestone,
monster beats sale often quite crystalline, while beneath it isoolitic, either friable or hard enough to be used for buildings. The hills aresand-blown, not upheaved. On a majority of the maps of the
cheap dr dre beats sixteenthcentury there were islands on Mouchoir, and on Silver Banks, where noware rocks "awash;" and the Dutch and the Severn Shoals, which lay to theeast, have disappeared.
����It is difficult to
cheap dr dre beats resist the impression that the shoal banks, and the reefsof the Bahamas, were formerly covered with land; and that for ageological age waste has been going on, and, perhaps, subsidence.
monster beats sale Thecoral polyp seems to be doing only desultory work, and that mostly on thenortheast or Atlantic side of the islands; everywhere else it has abandonedthe field to the erosive action
monster beats sale of the waves.
����Columbus said that Guanahani had abundance of water and a verylarge lagoon in the middle of it. He used the word laguna--lagoon, not lago--lake. His arrival in the
discount dre headphone Bahamas was at the height of the rainy season.
����Governor Rawson's Report on the Bahamas, 1864, page 92, Appendix 4,gives the annual rainfall at Nassau for ten years, 1855--'64, as sixty-fourinches.
cheap dr dre beats From May 1, to November 1 is the wet season, during which 44.7inches fall; the other six months 19.3 only. The most is in October, 8.5inches.
����Andros, the largest island, 1,600
cheap beats by dre square miles, is the only one that hasa stream of water. The subdivision of the land into so many islands andkeys, the absence of mountains, the showery characteristic of the
cheap dre headphone rainfall,the porosity of the rock, and the great heat reflected from the white coral,are the chief causes for the want of running water. During the rainy seasonthe "abundance of water"
cheap beats by dre collects in the low places, making ponds andlagoons, that afterward are soaked up by the rock and evaporated by thesun.
����Turk and Watling have lagoons of a more permanent condition,because they
cheap beats by dre are maintained from the ocean by permeation. The lagoonwhich Columbus found at Guanahani had certainly undrinkable water, orhe would have gotten some for his vessels, instead of putting it off
discount dre headphone until hereached the third island.
����There is nothing in the journal to indicate that the lagoon at Guanahaniwas aught but the flooding of the low grounds by excessive rains; andeven if
cheap beats by dre it was one communicating with the ocean, its absence now may bereferred to the effect of those agencies which are working incessantly toreshape the soft structure of the Bahamas.
����Samana has
cheap dr dre beats a range of hills on the southwest side about one hundredfeet high, and on the northeast another, lower. Between them, and alsoalong the north shore, the land is low, and
cheap beats by dre during the season of rains thereis a row of ponds parallel to the shore. On the south side a conspicuouswhite bluff looks to the southward and eastward.
����The two keys, lying
monster beats sale respectively half a mile and three miles east of theisland, and possibly the outer breaker, which is four miles, all might havebeen connected with each other, and with the island,
cheap beats by dre four hundred yearsago. In that event the most convenient place for Columbus to anchor in thestrong northeast trade-wind, was where I have put an anchor on the subsketch of Samana.
����[In
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����There is a common belief that the first landing place is settled by oneor another of the authors cited here. Nevertheless, I trust to have
cheap dr dre beats shown,paragraph by paragraph, wherein their several tracks are contrary to thejournal, inconsistent with the true cartography of the neighborhood, and tothe discredit, measurably, both of Columbus and of Las Casas.
discount dre headphone Theobscurity and the carelessness which appear in part of the diary throughthe Bahamas offer no obstacle to this demonstration, provided that they donot extend to the "log," or nautical part.
����Columbus
cheap dr dre beats went to sea when he was fourteen years of age, and servedthere almost continuously for twenty-three years. The strain of a sea-faringlife, from so tender an age, is not conducive
discount dre headphone to literary exactness. Still, forthe very reason of this sea experience, the "log" should be correct.
����This is composed of the courses steered, distances sailed over,bearings of islands from one another,
cheap dre headphone trend of shores, etc. The recording ofthese is the daily business of seamen, and here the entries were byColumbus himself, chiefly to enable him, on his return to Spain, toconstruct
cheap dr dre beats that nautical map, which is promised in the prologue of the firstvoyage.
����In crossing the Atlantic the Admiral understated to the crew each day'srun, so that they should not know how
discount dre headphone far they had gone into an unknownocean. Las Casas was aware of this counterfeit "log," but his abridgment isfrom that one which Columbus kept for his own use.
����If the complicated
discount dre headphone courses and distances in this were originally wrong,or if the copy of them is false, it is obvious that they cannot be "plotted "upon a correct chart. Conversely, if they
cheap dre headphone ARE made to conform to asuccession of islands among which he is known to have sailed, it isevident that this is a genuine transcript of the authentic "log" of Columbus,and,
cheap dre headphone reciprocally, that we have the true track, the beginning of which is theeventful landfall of October 12, 1492.
����The student or critical reader, and the seaman, will have to determinewhether the
cheap dr dre beats writer has established this conformity. The public, probably,desires to have the question settled, but it will hardly take any interest in a discussion that has no practical bearing, and which,
cheap dre headphone for its elucidation,leans so much upon the jargon or the sea.
����It is not flattering to the English or Spanish speaking peoples that thefour hundredth anniversary of this great event draws
cheap dr dre beats nigh, and is likely tocatch us still floundering, touching the first landing place.The letter to the Lady Juana, which gives Columbus's own statementof the indignities put upon him in San
cheap dre headphone Domingo, is written in his mostcrabbed Spanish. He never wrote the Spanish language accurately, and theletter, as printed from his own manuscript, is even curious in its infelicities.
����It is so
discount dre headphone striking an illustration of the character of the man that we printhere an abstract of it, with some passages translated directly from his ownlanguage.
����Columbus writes, towards the end of the
discount dre headphone year 1500, to the formernurse of Don Juan, an account of the treatment he has received. "If mycomplaint of the world is new, its method of abuse is very old,"
cheap dr dre beats he says.
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