Identifier: reviewofreviewsw44newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tesquely mLxed. The Cuban Cay Cantilleshas become to the English sailors King Tay-lor key; Cantilles reef has been variouslyaltered to King Taylor reef or Kicking Tay-lor reef, and now appears on the chartsmoved ten miles to the east and south as JackTaylor reef. A word for the lexicographers isMehagan; Calapatch IMehagan reef as itappears on the chart should be Calapatchreef, Mehagan being an Indian word for acoral reef ex-posed at all times. Calapatch isa corruption of carapace and is applied likethe latter word to the upper shell of the sea-turtle. The Mexican coast from Cape Catochesouth scarcely has been touched except forthe meager examinations of )wrts and har-bors; and excepting British Honduras andbrief work near Greytown the whole CentralAmerican coast, including Guatemala, Hon-duras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, is badlycharted. The work in Panama can be leftto the Canal Commission, which is doingeverything under its control in the most CHARTING AND LIGHTING THE CARIBBEAN 599
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MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE CHARTING OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA 600 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS thorough manner. But the tale of duty un-fulfilled begins again with the Colombiancoas and continues until Venezuela ceasesand British Guiana takes up the white mansburden.* Caribbean harbors and their en-trances are in the main well charted. Span-ish navigators and port oflicials have showngood results where hand work and the lesserinstruments of survey sufficed. This earhercartography has been supplemented princi-pally by British surveys. British Hondurasis dependably completed, as are the variousBritish insular possessions. The Danish,Dutch and French island charts were consid-ered satisfactory up till ten years ago, butthe Martinique explosion and consequent dis-turbance of the ocean bed has made advis-able a reexamination of the entire Windwardquadrangle. Porto Rico has been charted inthe scientific method of the Coast and Geo-detic Survey, and a Hydrographic Office sur-vey of Haiti is approach

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