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rains, delayed our passage across the bank to Salt Key, which 
was reached on the evening of the twentieth. Salt Key (Cay 
Sal), so-named from possessing a valuable salt pond, is about 
thirty miles off the north-central coast of Cuba. The island is 
triangular in shape, small, and composed almost entirely of sand, 
The northern side is formed by a narrow ridge of sand hills, the 
remainder being low. Here also were found the two palms first 
met with at the north end of the Anguilla Isles. 
Upon arriving at Elbow Key, May 22, we were enabled, under 
the guidance of Mr. James A. Thompson, Head Keeper of the 
light-house, to examine the greater part of the island. The 
flora however was of little interest, as less than a dozen species 
of plants were obtained. 
Our expedition to the Salt Key Bank was concluded by a visit 
to Water Key, a few miles to the north. Owing to the unsettled 
condition of the weather, and a heavy sea, after a few hours spent 
ashore, we left for Nassau, where we arrived five days later, after 
a series of calms, and a squall which carried away our mainsail 
and drove us seaward for two hours. 
From our return until June 8, the time was spent in local ex- 
ploration about town, where we collected a number of plants new 
to the flora of the Bahamas. Several trips were made to Ho 
Island, previously visited, at a different season, by yourself and 
Dr. C. F. Millspaugh of the Field Museum of Natural History 
of Chicago. 
The remaining two days at Nassau were devoted to the care 
and packing of the specimens which I ie through safely to 
New York upon my return on June 
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