no. 2 fraser : scientific work, velero iii, eastern pacific 55 



An Account of Collecting Stations 



California South of San Francisco 



Plates 17, 26-28; Charts 19, 20, 25, 26 



The most northerly location, represented by one dredging station, 

 listed in the Pacific, is situated in the Gulf of the Farallones, 6 miles from 

 the Middle Farallon and much the same distance from the North Far- 

 allon. 



The Gulf of the Farallones serves as the approach to San Francisco 

 Bay. It is bounded on the north by Point Reyes, on the south by Point 

 San Pedro, and on the west by the Farallones. It is comparatively shal- 

 low, seldom exceeding 40 fathoms in depth, and most of it less than 30 

 fathoms. In general, the bottom is sandy. 



The Farallones consist of three rocky islets, or groups of islets — the 

 Southeast, the Middle, and the North Farallon islands — extending 7 

 miles in a northwest-southeast direction, approximately 25 miles from the 

 Golden Gate. 



Six miles south of Point San Pedro is Pillar Point, which serves to 

 protect Halfmoon Bay from the northwest. This bay is shallow and has 

 no protection from the southwest. There is one dredging station 1% miles 

 south of Pillar Point, in 16 fathoms, coarse gravel. 



Forty miles southeast of Halfmoon Bay is the much larger Monterey 

 Bay, with a 20-mile face between Point Santa Cruz to the north and 

 Point Pinos to the south. The shore consists largely of sand dunes, and 

 the water is shallow for some distance out from the head of the bay with 

 exception of a portion centrally placed where a deep canyon, Monterey 

 Canyon, extends outward across the bay into the open ocean, with a 

 depth, at the entrance of the bay, of 550 fathoms. 



There is one station in quite shallow water at the head of the bay 

 near the mouth of the Salinas River, in sand, and 3 stations in and outside 

 the bay near Point Pinos, in 26-54 fathoms, shell and rock. 



From Point Pinos the coast extends southwesterly 4 miles to Cypress 

 Point and then turns abruptly eastward a couple of miles to Pescadero 

 Point, which forms the northwestern boundary of Carmel Bay. Point 

 Lobos appears at the southern extremity. Some dredging has been done 

 in and around Carmel Bay in depths up to 40 fathoms. 



From Carmel Bay there is a stretch of rugged coast southward 90 

 miles before the next station appears at Point San Luis, the point that 

 bounds San Luis Obispo Bay to the westward. Around this rocky point, 



