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from Pelican Lake. In the western part, which is nearly circu- 

 lar, the depth of the water is about six feet. The bottom is 

 composed of rather firm mud in this part of the bay. There 

 are no living reefs in this part of the bay, and only a few hard 

 areas marking the location of old reefs. In the eastern portion 

 of this bay the depth of water is less than in the western, and 

 there are several hard areas of considerable extent near the 

 islands separating the two parts of the bay. In the blind pocket 

 at the eastern end of the bay the bottom is very soft, except for 

 a small patch near an artificial cut into Bay Long. 



In this bay the salinity of the water and the abundance of 

 the food supply is practically the same as in Bay Long. 



Little Bayou Sale (or Bayou Des Mangles) opens into Lake 

 Pelto, about one-quarter of a mile east of the mouth of the 

 pass to California Bay. This bayou is narrow for about one mile 

 from its mouth and has a depth of from eight to eighteen feet 

 in the channel. Above this narrow portion the bayou expancfs 

 into a lake-like portion some three-quarters of a mile long and 

 one-quarter of a mile wide. In this broadened portion the depth 

 of the water is about three feet, and the bottom is composed of 

 rather firm mud. Above this first "bay" the bayou is narrow 

 again for about one and one-half miles, when it forms another 

 bay about one mile long and three-eighths of a mile wide. In 

 this bay the water is from three to four feet deep. The bottom 

 is made up of firm mud mixed with a lot of broken shell. From 

 the northeast corner of this last-mentioned portion, there is a 

 narrow pass into Bay Des Mangles. This bay is some two miles 

 long and one mile wide. The water is from three to five feet 

 deep. The bottom is generally firm. 



No productive reefs were found in the bayou or in the bays, 

 the only living oysters outside of the leases being on the shallow 

 flats in the second narrow portion of the bayou. 



The average salinity of the water was 1.016. The amount 

 of oyster food was large both in the bayou and bays. 



In the small bayous 'cutting up the marsh between Little 

 Bayou Sale and California Bay there are a great many coon 

 oysters that might be used as seed, and some small patches of 

 rather good oysters in the deeper parts of the bayous. 



