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ural beds however have been preserved, and great quantities 
of seed oysters are annually procured from them for plant- 
ing on private beds. 
The following is a brief description of the principal 
natural beds in the Sound, mostly under State jurisdiction. 
They have not yet been surveyed by the commissioners, for 
want of time. The areas have been approximately ascer- 
tained from data gathered from reliable sources in the 
neighborhood of the beds, and elsewhere: 
Beginning at the west end of the State and going east, 
the beds will be found in the following order, viz.: 
Portchester Bed: part of this bed is in New York State. 
That part which hes within this State begins at Byram 
Point and extends tothe north end of Calves Island. Area 
300 acres. Depth of water 6 to18 feet. Benjamin Wilmot 
and Enoch Marshall claim, each, 15 acres of this bed, and 
have buoyed out 64 acres or thereabouts; and the ques- 
tion of title is now in litigation. 
Captain's Island Bed lies south of Great Captain’s Island. 
Area, 200 acres. Depth of water, 5 to 30 feet. 
field Point Bed lies south and east of Horse Neck Point. 
Area, 200 acres. Depth of water, 7 to 10 feet. 
Greenwich Cove Bed is partly in the cove of that name, 
and partly south of Elias Point. Area, 100 acres. Depth 
of water, 1 to 8 feet. 
Greenwich Point Bed is south of Greenwich Point. Area, 
300 acres. Depth of water, 50 to 60 feet. William A. 
Cummings claims 110 acres of this area. 
Gravelly Bar Bed lies northwest of Smith’s Reef, off 
Stamford. Area, 50 acres. Depth of water, 9 feet. 
Shippan Point and Westcott's Cove Bed lies east of Ship- 
pan Point. Area of the northern part, 250 acres. Depth 
of water 6 to 14 feet. Area of the part southeast of Ship- 
pan Point, about 200 acres, nearly exhausted. Depth of 
water, 15 to 20 feet. 
Roaton Point and Fish Island Bed lies off Five Mile River 
opposite Norwalk, and extends one and one-fourth miles 
from Fish Island on the west to Roaton Point on the east; 
and is about three-eighths of a mile wide from north to 
south. Area, 300 acres. Depth of water, 1 to 14 feet. 
