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The number of shells washed up, sponges, corals, sea- 

 grasses and weeds, medusae, and many other ocean- 

 products which strew the beach, engage and excite the 

 attention of the traveller at every step. Circumstances 

 did not admit of our tarrying here at pleasure, how- 

 ever, we industriously collected whatever seemed to us 

 notable. This beach-road consisted for the most part 

 of shell-sand, coarse or fine, with very few, often no 

 quartz-grains. So far as the otherwise loose sand is 

 moistened by the play of the waves it forms an ex- 

 tremely smooth and firm surface, hardly showing 

 hoof-marks. At a distance of perhaps 30-50 paces 

 from the water, there runs parallel with it a line of low 

 sand-swells, 3-6 ft. high and averaging 8-10 ft. across. 

 Towards the sea these undulations were cut away 

 almost perpendicularly, but on the other side were 

 sloping and sparsely grown up with thin grass and bush. 

 These sand-swells which the ocean itself seems to have 

 set as its limit, were notwithstanding broken through 

 here and there, and the land lying immediately behind 

 was much ravaged as a result of occasional overflow. 

 The road leaving the beach, which extends far away 

 of a similar character, one again traverses gloomy and 

 lonesome woods to the neighborhood of the Waccama 

 or Waggomangh, and beyond, by a narrow tongue of 

 land between that river and the ocean, to Winguah 

 Bay. The Waggomangh is one of the rivers most 

 advantageous for these southern parts ; it flows 

 through a considerable tract of the interior country, 

 and is navigable for large freight-boats. Shortly be- 

 fore its entrance into the ocean, it unites with the Pedee 

 and the Black rivers, and they together make the 

 fore-mentioned Winguah Bay. 



