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Atlantic, the

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The most important, best known, most traversed and best provided for traffic of all the oceans on the globe, connecting, rather than separating, the Old World and the New; covers nearly one-fifth of the surface of the earth; length 9000 m., its average breadth 2700 m.; its average depth 15,000 ft., or from 3 to 5 m., with waves in consequence of greater height and volume than those of any other sea.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Atlantic, the'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/atlantic-the.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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