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on which this mass reposes is far above the level to which 
the coralline exuvize have been thrown up by the hurricane. 
. If he pursues his way till he passes the isthmus that connects 
= the Morne de Brabant with the main land, and then turns 
to the left, he will have to travel over a ledge of coral rock, 
a mile perhaps in length, and in some parts not less than 
sixty feet in thickness. It is of the same structure as that 
already described, and nearly insulated by a salt-marsh into 
which the sea flows at every spring-tide. This bank _ 
terminates at the Baie du Cap, and in the charts of the 
island is called Point de Corail. At Port Jacoté, close by 
the signal-post, there is a mass of coral, bearing the same 
characters as the former, one hundred yards at least in 
diameter, and nearly as many above the level of the sea. 
* At the Grand Port, there are numerous examples of the 
same kind. The Ile des Aigrettes, three miles in circum- 
ference, and lying a great way within the verge of the reef, 
consists entirely of petrified coral; and though quite destitute 
of soil, is covered with an impenetrable coppice. The Islets 
Marianne, Vacois, F ouquet, and de la Passe, are of similar 
structure, and also Monkey-Island, at the bottom of the bay. 
The beds of the Ile de la Passe recline at the angle of 45°, — 
and the coral is so indurated as to have served the purpose of 
Stone, in constructing the barrack and battery erected upon that 
island to defend the entrance of the Port. What is more 
extraordinary, the dip of these beds is so far from being 
conformable, that they incline in opposite directions, and at 
a right angle with each other, on the opposite sides of the 
island. In short, every accessory islet and rock within the 
verge of the reef consists of the same material, with the 
solitary exception of the Ile aux Fourneaux, the base of 
which resembles that of the main islande ii geo n E 
_ “ Such being the fact, it remains to be accounted for, how - 
these masses came to be placed in their actual spall he 
agency of hurricanes is out of the question in discussing the 
existence of marine exuwim at a greater elevation than 
fifteen or twenty feet above the ordinary reach of the ETR 
their stratification, oblique in some cases, arid their total want 
