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Pond at southern end of Penikese Island. Fresh water. Small, very shallow 



and muddy, without vegetation. 

 Ice Pond. — Cuttyhunk Island. Fresh water. About 50 feet in diameter, very 



shallow and choked with vegetation. 

 Lower Gosnold Pond. — Cuttyhunk Island. Brackish water. Opening into the 



ocean at its southern end and rather free from vegetation. 

 Upper Gosnold Pond. — Cuttyhunk Island. Fresh water. Separated from 



Lower Gosnold Pond by a bank of earth 40 feet wide, and full of vegetation. 

 Cuttyhunk Pond. — Cuttyhunk Island. Salt water. The harbor of the island, 



open to the ocean, and very shallow except in the channel. 



PONDS ON MARTHAS VINEYARD 



Katama Bay. — Salt water. A widened thoroughfare between Marthas Vineyard 



and Chappaquiddick Island, open to the ocean at both ends. 

 Edgartown Great Pond. — Fresh water to salt water. Two miles long, a mile 



and a half wide ; open to the ocean* at the southern end, source of Edgar- 

 town water supply at the other end. 

 Pond in western outskirts of Edgartown, 150 feet in diameter, shallow, and 



full of water plants. 

 Sengekontacket Pond. — Salinity 29.65. Three miles long, two-thirds of a mile 



wide, open to the ocean near its center, shallow, and full of algae. 

 Farm Pond. — Salinity 13.03. Half a mile long, quarter of a mile wide, and 



full of water plants of all descriptions. 

 Oak Bluff Pond. — Salinity 28.15. A small pond covering an acre and open to 



the ocean. 

 Menemsha Bight.— Salt water. A large bay on the northwest shore where most 



of the pond nets for fishing are set. 

 Menemsha Pond. — Salt water. A large pond opening into the bight and 



extending nearly across the island to the southern shore. 

 Nashaquitsa Pond. — Brackish water. Really the southern portion of 



Menemsha Pond, since they open into each other. 



PONDS ON CHAPPAQUIDDICK ISLAND 



Poucha Pond. — Salinity 30.16. Opening into Cape Foge Bay and thence into 



the ocean, deep, and comparatively free from vegetation. 

 Brackish ponds. — A series of five unnamed ponds at the southern point and 



along the western shore of the island close to Katama Bay : 

 No. 1. — Half an acre in area, salinity 25.46, choked with vegetation, and 



covered with a thick algal scum. 

 No. 2. — Quarter of an acre in area, salinity 28.16, very shallow but free from 



vegetation, with a hard bottom. 

 No. 3. — Quarter of an acre in area, salinity 23.15, very shallow but free from 



vegetation, with a muddy bottom. 

 No. 4. — Half an acre in area, salinity 22.67, very shallow and full of vegetation, 



with a muddy bottom. 

 No. 5. — Quarter of an acre in area, salinity 20.54, rather shallow and full of 



vegetation, with a hard bottom. 



