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Identifier: transactionsofco112conn (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Subjects: Science Humanities
Publisher: New Haven : Published by the Academy
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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rees. Such casts, large and small, are common in the rocks of the islandsat all levels, from below the sea to the highest hilltops, and they canbe seen in actual process of formation. Many of them are thoughtto be the casts of stumps of palmettoes or some, other palm tree, nowextinct. (See under Geology and plates Ixxxiv-vi.) The drifting sands sometimes blow into the sea and accumulate insuch quantities, in sheltered harbors, as to fill them up to a greatextent. Tuckers Town harbor, originally called Stokes Bay, whichis now very shallow, with extensive sand-flats, bare at low tide, issaid to have been deep enough, at first, to admit mercliant ships ofmoderate size. Its appearance indicates that it is still filling up, forthe upper part of the beach merges directly into the still activesand-dunes of the shoie. Mr. Nelson, also, says that before his time (1833) the channel atCrow Lane had been veiy much filled up, but this was probably by silt. 480 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Js/a?ids.
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Figui-e 26.—Map of the Bermuda Islands and Reefs. A. JEJ. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 481 JExplanation of Figure 26. The depths outside the reefs and in the lagoons are in fathoms ; those on thereefs and shallows are in feet. I. I.—Ii-eland Island and Dry Dock. BZ.—Boaz Island. S. I.—Somerset Island. B. I.—Bermuda or Main Island. B. —Bailey Bay. H.—Hamilton, the capital. H. S.—Harrington Sound. S. B.—Shelly Bay. F.—Flatts Village and the outlet of Harrington Sound. E.—Elbow Bay, with modern sand dunes. G. H.—Gibbs Hill Light. D.—Devils Hole. C.—Causeway, destroyed Sept. 12, 1899, by a storm, and rebuilt. C. H.—Castle Harbor. G. I.—St. Georges Island and town. G.—St. Georges Harbor. S.«C.—Main Ship-channel or entrance to Murray Anchorage. D. I.—Davids Island and Light.C. I.—Coopers Island. N. I.—Nonesuch Island. K. I.—Castle Island and ruins of Kings Castle. The principal submerged sinks or drowned lagoons, over 50 feet deep, areshaded wi

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