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'J'he salinity of the water, in both the bay and in the bayou, 

 was 1.018 as the average of all the determinations made. The 

 amount of food in the water was abundant at all times. 



Immediately to the westward of Bay Jack Stout, between 

 that body of water and Taylor's Bayou, there are a number 

 of small shallow bays, most of which contain some small natural 

 reefs made up of small and poorly shaped oysters. The bottom 

 outside of the reefs is generally very soft. The food and salin- 

 ity conditions are very similar to those in the larger bay just 

 mentioned. 



North of Bay Jack fStout there are two small bays known 

 as Indian Bay and Little Indian Bay. Both of these are con- 

 nected with Bay Jack Stout, and have openings into Taylor's. 

 Bayou on the north. Indian Bay, the one faithest to the west- 

 ward, has many oyster reefs in its northern portion; while 

 in the southern portion the barren area is proportionately much 

 greater. The M'ater is very shallow in both arms of the bay, so 

 that at low tides in winter, both the reefs, and the flats in the 

 southern arm of the bay, are exposed. The bottom is soft 

 wherever there are no reefs, and the mud is very deep. Little 

 Indian Bay lies just east of the last mentioned body of water- 

 with which it is connected by a rather wide pass. There are a 

 few reefs of oysters in this bay ; but by far the greater part 

 of the bottom is made up of very soft mud. The water is from 

 two and one-half to eight feet deep, the deeper portion being 

 in the west end of the bay. The salinity of the water in these 

 bays is practically the same as in Bay Jack Stout or in Taybr's 

 Bayou. The amount of oyster food in the water is large. 



East of the mouth of Bayoii Jack Stout and west of Grand 

 Bayou du Large, there are several small bayous emptying into 

 the Gulf, most of which communicate with small bays or lakes 

 lying between Bay Jack Stout and Sister Lake. All of these 

 bayous are from 8 to 20 feet deep. There are no reefs of any 

 commercial importance in any of these bodies of water; but 

 there are coon oysters along the banks of the bayous as well 

 as some small reefs in the bays. 



Grand Bayou du Large, which extends from the southwest 

 end of Sister Lake to the Gulf, is about two miles long and' 

 from one-eighth to one-quarter of a mile wide. The depth of 



