iat Island is 



other Bahamas ; the ch 



s of about 400 feet ; I a 



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potato (Solanum) were collected, the species being known only 

 from this island and from Great Exuma, about 50 miles to the 



45 miles long and is more hilly that any of 

 he charts maintain that it contains eleva- 

 cended several of the hills, which in 

 each case were claimed to be the highest on the island by the 

 residents, but could find no altitude by the aneroid barometer 

 greater than 205 feet, though it is possible that some of the hills 

 may be slightly higher ; this cited height of 400 feet had been 

 doubted by Mr. Brace, and so far as my observations go there is 

 probably no elevation as great as that on the island. 



Conception Island, lying about 25 miles southeast of Port 

 Howe, was next visited, and studied on March 9 and 10 ; this is 

 the smallest of the islands studied by us on this cruise, being only 

 about 2 y 2 miles long by somewhat less than 2 miles wide. It is in- 



but the middle part of it is occupied by one of the most continuous 

 and striking level salt-plains that I have seen anywhere in the 





Exum 



The flor 

 irther r 

 .oily cac, 



orth and v 



rikingly diffen 

 t good 1 





that of the 



asly fct 



1 by. 



chain were obtained and the sandy 



islands. A few species known hitherto on 

 were found here. 



Watling's Island, topographically, histc 

 respects botanically the most interesting 

 and the most eastern point reached on ou 

 from March 1 2 to 1 5 and we should hav 



ern part. The 

 rather hilly, with a 



nected with the oce; 



, height a 



