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TABLE No. 4. AREAS OF OYSTER-BEDS APPROXIMATELY 



ASCERTAINED. 1883. 



Square Yards. 



Fishing Bay Beds 25,600,000 



Were Point 1,800,000 



Shark Fin Point 1,850,000 



Nanticoke Point 3,400,000 



Clump Point , 400,000 



Horsey's Bar Beds 200.000 



Tyler Beds 700,000 



Drumming Shoal 2,400,000 



Cow and Calf 300,000 



Bloodsworth Island (East Bed) 4,000,000 



Cedar Beds 400,000 



Mud Beds 1,800,000 



Turtle Egg Island 1,650,000 



Chain Shoal 1,200,000 



Muscle Hole Bed 3,000,000 



Piney Island Bar 7,000,000 



Manokin River Bed 6,200,000 



Big Annemessex 3,000,000 



Harris' Beds 3,400.000 



Terrapin Sand Beds 1,400,000 



Paul's Bed 800,000 



Woman's Marsh 7,000.000 



Bed of Janes' Island 1,800,000 



Great Rock 8,500,000 



St. Mary's County Bay Shore 48.787,200 



Calvert County Bay Shore 57.076,800 



James River to Islands to Boundary Line 42,240.000 



Anne Arundel County Bay Shore 88.281,600 



Kent County Bay Shore 21,608,400 



Talbot County Bay Shore 50,372,800 



Queen Anne's County Bay Shore 48,787,200 



Susquehanna River Oyster-Beds 14,700,000 



Sassafras River Oyster-Beds 3,300,000 



Back River Oyster-Beds 2,200,000 



Back River Oyster-Beds 1,200,000 



Gunpowder River Oyster-Beds 3,800,000 



Bush River Oyster-Beds 1,300,000 



Hawk Cove Oyster-Beds 960,000 



Patapsco River Oyster-Beds (Old Road River to Sellers' 



Point) 3,800.000 



Chester River and Creeks Oyster-Beds 21,400,000 



Bodkin Creek Oyster-Beds 5,000,000 



Magothy River Oyster-Beds 8,900,000 



Severn River Oyster-Beds 3,500,000 



South River Oyster-Beds 6,000,000 



Eastern Bay and Creeks Oyster-Beds 19,400,000 



Choptank River to Cambridge Oyster-Beds 13,300,000 



Little Choptank River Oyster-Beds 7,100,000 



Patuxent River to Benedict Oyster-Beds 17,300,000 



Total 578,224,000 



Five hundred and seventy-eight million square yards 

 are about one hundred and ninety-three square miles, 

 or one hundred and twenty-three thousand five hun- 

 dred and twenty acres. 



