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that soundings had been obtained in the same place of 16 

 fathoms. The dredge-net usually brought up from these 

 greater depths only a grayish-white mud or ooze, largely made 

 up of coral and coralline fragments and the debris of the 

 crumbling cliffs, among which the perfectly formed tests of a 

 limited number of Foraininfera Globigerina, Orbiculina 

 could be made out. A deposit is manifestly accumulating on 

 the floor of the Sound, and at a rate evidently much more 

 rapid than that which marks disappearance through solution. 



Our journeyings through the country were largely made by 

 cart, a ramshackle two-wheeled arrangement which we canopied 

 so as to protect us from the force of the sun's rays. That a 

 party of nine, men and women closely huddled together, with 

 an arrangement for traveling such as we had, should have at- 

 tracted some little attention, or even drawn out the smiles of 

 the kindly-disposed natives, goes without saying. We found 

 it impossible at the Flatts to obtain a two-horse conveyance of 

 any description, consequently we were compelled to put up with 

 a simple cart, or with that in combination with another vehicle. 

 Fortunately, the excellent condition of the country roads ren- 

 dered traveling even in our rude contrivance fairly comfortable, 

 while the load was not over burdensome to the single animal. 

 The statement that has gained currency that two-horse con- 

 veyances are practically unknown in the Bermudas has noth- 

 ing to support it. 



We did not suffer so m-uch from the glare of the roads as we 

 had anticipated. The anticipatory warnings concerning green - 

 umbrellas and black-goggles had succeeded in thrusting these 

 articles of defense upon us, but they were barely more needed 

 here than in any other limestone region. Nor did we find the 

 heat of the sun to be of that oppressive quality which report 

 made it. The highest marking of the thermometer during our 

 sojourn (July) was 84 F., considerably lower than what 

 we should have expected, during the same season of the year, 

 for the region about Philadelphia or New York. We found 

 but little difference between the temperature of night and day 



