Atlanta

the capital of Georgia, U.S.A., nearly miles N.W. of Savannah. It is a large and town, and does an extensive trade in It has a university and medical colleges, Atlanta, the type-genus of ATLANTIDA, a family of HETEROPOD A, It occurs in warmer parts of the Atlantic. Atlantes (plural of Gr, At/as), in Architecture, of men used to support entablatures instead pillars. ‘They are sometimes called Zelamones, figures uscd for a similar purpose are called (q.v.). Atlantic Ocean, the name given to that body of water that separates the Old World the New, its north and south limits being the and Antarctic circles. It thus has a length 9,000, an average breadth of 2,700, a shore line over 60,000 miles, and an area of 25,000,000 miles. The widest stretches from land to are just under 4,000 miles between Florida and or Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, the narrowest breadth, between Norway and is 900 miles, whilst from Cape Rocca to Leone the distance is 1,700 miles. The averages from three to five miles. Off §t. soundings of 23,250 fect have been taken, south of the Newfoundland Bank there seems be a much deeper depre ion. Along the “ Tele- Plateau” from Cape Clear to Cape Race mean depth is no more than 11,000 or 12,000 and the ocean becomes shallower as the Pole approached. This finid ma is influenced by great surface currents, viz. the Gulf Stream, i ues from the Gulf of Mexico, at a temper of from 10 to 30 degrees higher than the sur water, and strikes in a north-east direction, between Iceland and Norway, and the Equa- Current, sweeping in the opposite direction 272 from divides, other Brazilian of Africa, the Current, and the under South to direction. Sarga o and with bacciferum, CURKENTS.] affected [ WINDS, temperate the where icebergs southern as greater other. times In exceed cla ical to Whether had whether of the which of shore thus Tripoli. ranges the east called Tripoli 4,500, Milts in Tedla Algerian lateral the Spartel as coast of Mount the At lant is. ( 244) era the African coast to Cape St. Roque, where it one half entering the Caribbean Sea, and the half taking a southerly direction along the coast. A minor current, really a branch the Gulf Stream, sets from the Azores towards and, curving round Cape Palmas, reaches Bight of Benin. It is called the Guinea Cold streams i uing from Davis’s Strait from the Polar Sea meet the Gulf Stream off American const in about 50° N. lat. and pa ing it find their way to the equator. In the Atlantic below Cape Horn a counter current the Equatorial Current has a constant easterly