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San Marcial Point is a rocky cliff with a long reef of rocks extending 

 out from it, and 1% miles north-northeastward is San Marcial Rock. 

 Just north of San Marcial Point, the coast turns abruptly westward, 2 

 miles, to Agua Verde Bay, where there is a fair anchorage. The bay is 

 surrounded by rocky bluffs, but there are two small sandy beaches. 



The San Marcial Point and Agua Verde Bay area has been a favorite 

 collecting location ; 26 stations are located here, with all types of equip- 

 ment used. The work here consisted of shore collecting in the sand and on 

 the rocks at low tide and with the use of a skiff, collecting on San Marcial 

 Reef, seining, dipping and diving, dredging in the shallow water in sand, 

 and in deeper water to 127 fathoms, mostly in mud. 



West of Point San Pasquel, the western extremity of Agua Verde 

 Bay, is a small bight, 5 miles across to San Cosme Point, and then an- 

 other, larger bight to Candelero Point, 1 1 miles across, with a succession 

 of rocky bluffs and sandy beaches. Off Candelero Point lie three pinnacle 

 rocks, Los Candeleros. 



Another bight extends from Candelero Point to Punta Coyote, 7 

 miles. There are some sandy beaches and outlying rocks. Punta Coyote 

 is a steep, bluff headland, forming the eastern limit of a pear-shaped pen- 

 insula, joined by a narrow neck to the mainland, which forms a well-pro- 

 tected and almost landlocked harbor, Puerto Escondido. Here there is 

 some shingle beach, rather a rarity in the Gulf. The bight is pretty well 

 shut off from the open Gulf by Danzante Island, 3% miles long. Off 

 Punta Coyote and in and off Puerto Escondido and in the channel be- 

 tween these and Danzante Island, there are 19 stations, at which practi- 

 cally all types of collecting were used. The bottom here is mostly sand. 



From Punta Coyote the coast takes a regular sweep almost directly 

 northward to Tierra Firma Point, 15 miles, with but one noticeable 

 point between, Nopolo Point. Much of the coast here is low and sandy. 



Opposite this part of the coast lies the large Carmen Island, 17% 

 miles long and 6 miles in greatest width, with its southern point, Punta 

 Baja, 3% miles from Punta Coyote. The general appearance of the island 

 and of its coast does not differ materially from that of the near-by main- 

 land. The northern portion of the island forms a rough square, and the 

 remainder extends as a peninsula from 2 to 3 miles wide to Punta Baja. 

 Between the base of the peninsula and Perico Point, the southeastern 

 point of the main part of the island, is the well-protected Salinas Bay. 

 There are one dredging station in Salinas Bay in sand bottom and two 

 in mud bottom in the channel between the southern peninsula and the 

 mainland. 



