es
is on the parallel of 41 deg. N., where the shoal rises steeply out of
"blue water."

[Footnote 14: Capt. John Smith wrote of this region: "Toward the South
and Southwest of this Cape (Cape Cod) is found a long and dangerous
shoal of sands and rocks. But so far as I incircled it, I found thirtie
fadom water aboard the shore, and a strong current; which makes mee
thinke there is a Channell about the shoales; where is the best and
greatest fish to be had, Winter and Summer in all that Countree. But the
Savages say there is no Channell; but that the shoales begin from the
main at Pawmet, to the Ile of Nausit; and so extends beyond their
knowledge into the sea." That the captain's reputation for far-visioned
wisdom may not be held too lightly, let these figures speak, taken as
they are from the bureau's records of the landings at the three ports of
Boston, Gloucester. and Portland for the year 1927, when the fares from
his "Channell" numbered 2,036, with a poundage of 121,688,693 and a
value of $3,607,358.]

[Footnote 15. "The earliest record of this name (Saint Georges Shoal)
that the writer has found appears upon a map discovered in the library
of Simancas, in Spain, where a chart said to have been made by a
surveyor sent out to Virginia by James I of England, in 1610, was found
in 1885 or 1888, after having long before disappeared from England. This
chart is thought to embody, besides the work of Champlain and other
foreigners, the information contained in the English charts of White,
Gosnold, Pring, and probably of Waymouth's Perfect Geographical Map. It
is thought to have been drawn by Robert Tyndall or Captain Powell."
_Genesis of the United States_. Alexander Brown.]

OFFSHORE BANKS

Browns Bank. This bank lies in a northeastern direction from Georges and
is separated from it by a gully 15 miles wide, in which the depths range
from 100 to 450 fathoms. Its area is about 2,275 square miles. The
greatest length, from SE to NW, is 63 miles and the greatest width
is 43 miles. It is situated between 64 deg. 52" and 68 deg. 29" west
longitude, and 41 deg. 50" and 43 deg. 02" north latitude. There is a
small rocky shoal on the northern part, on which, it is said, there is
not 9 to 15 fathoms. The bank slopes away from the shoal, S. and E. to
depths of 55 to 75 fathoms, but at a distance of 12 or 15 miles off, it
again rises to 30 to 50 fathoms. This area of shoal water, within the 50
fathom limit, is 50 miles