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On the east coast Cartago Bay provides all of the stations. Most of 

 the shore stations are near where the rock and sand meet, near the north- 

 ern entrance of the bay, but there is one station on the south side near 

 the head. There is so much mangrove growing out from the shore in much 

 of the bay that it is a difficult matter to make even a near approach to the 

 shore. Much of the main part of the bay is shallow, with sandy bottom 

 liberally sprinkled with patches of rock, and is not very satisfactory for 

 dredging. At the entrance to the bay, and farther out, there is a nullipore 

 bottom, and farther out still, near White Rock, there is mud. The electric 

 light has been used several times at anchorage, but the plankton is not so 

 interesting or so varied as it is at Tagus Cove. 



James Island, 10 miles east of Albemarle and 10 miles south of the 

 equator, is nearly rectangular, with greatest length from east to west, 20 

 miles, north to south, 12 miles. It has one high peak, 2,700 feet, near the 

 center of the island ; but other cones of considerable size make it quite 

 rugged, particularly on the western slope, but not so much so as some 

 sections of Albemarle. In the northeast the slope is more gradual, and 

 there is a rather large area of low altitude near shore. The western slope, 

 in general, is green and well wooded, the trees larger than on the other 

 islands. On the western slope of the main peak, at a height of about 1,000 

 feet, there is a crater that contains a saline lake, from which salt has been 

 obtained. The northern and eastern slopes are much more arid. The basal 

 rock is a rough lava of the "aa" type, but over this, in places, there have 

 been what appears to be three distinct, liquid lava flows : one, possibly the 

 oldest, is reddish brown, somewhat like the basal lava in appearance ; an- 

 other is light gray ; and the third is almost black. These give a distinctive 

 appearance to that side of the island. 



There are two sizable bays extending into the shore of the island, 

 James Bay on the west side and Sulivan Bay at the north end of the east 

 side. Off the northern portion of the west side is Albany Island, separated 

 from James by a deep channel, % mile wide ; and off the northeast corner 

 of the island is a somewhat larger island than Albany, Bartholomew 

 Island, the channel between, at its narrowest, being less than 300 yards 

 wide. As it extends to the northeast, it forms part of the boundary of 

 Sulivan Bay. 



Bartholomew is a picturesque little island. It consists of two main 

 portions, east and west, joined by a neck of land, bordered by a sand beach 

 on each side, the south beach backed by sand dunes. Most of the central 

 portion of this neck is occupied by a mangrove lagoon. The larger, eastern 



