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Facility at that time, and the aircraft made a routine takeoff. There 

 should be very little doubt that this harbor is one of the best in the 

 Bahamas. It is described by Linton Rigg (1951). 



Graham's Harbor is a large body of water about 3 miles in width, 

 4^ miles in length, average depth 20 to 25 feet ; the central portions 

 are virtually free of reefs. The outside reefs around the island form 

 a triangle 45 with White Cay at the top of the harbor. It is protected 

 along the east and northeast by a long peninsula which Columbus 

 said looked like an island but is not one (fig. 10). This "piece of 



Fig. 10. — A "piece of land that looks like an island but is not one." Note 

 hurricane clouds overhead. 



land" is more than half a mile long; a third of it is cut from the 

 mainland, Cut Rock Cay, separated now by a narrow channel of 

 water averaging about 3 feet in low tide and 50 feet wide. This 

 cut was made by pounding of the open sea against it. This could 

 be the very spot which Columbus thought it might take 2 days to 

 cut. It is here that Columbus had described six houses he saw 

 ("bohio," made of native stone and lignum vitae, with a palmetto- 

 thatched roof) (Granberry, 1956), and on this peninsula evidence 46 

 of Indians has been found by the author. It was later, on the 17th, 

 that Columbus described the houses as "all like tents, and very high, 



43 Las Casas called San Salvador "Triango." 



4(5 On this "piece of land" artifacts were found in 1958, identified by Dr. Irving 

 Rouse, who advised the author to have instruction in scientific archeological 

 excavations. Dr. John Goggin. University of Florida, was invited in February 

 I960, and he conducted field work on several sites, which has been continued by 

 the author since that time. (Gallager, 1961.) 



