interested, of course, in going to the locality determined at that 

 time as the most probable point where Columbus first landed, 

 and in taking note of the plants which he presumably saw here. 

 These are all well known Bahaman species and species growing also 

 on the shores of many other West Indian islands ; it is probable 

 that the one which first attracted the discoverers of America was 

 the sea-grape {Coccoloba Uvifera), a common shrub or tree of all 

 West Indian sea coasts, which gets its common name from its 

 edible grape-like bunches of fruit. The headland on which 

 the monument stands is locally known as Crab Cay.' The 



from Chicago to be a chimney of a ruined house until he reached 

 it; it is about 12 feet high and constructed mainly from loose 

 rocks picked up in the vicinity ; it bears a marble globe with an 

 outline of the continents engraved upon it and a marble slab 

 which states that at this point Columbus first set foot upon the 

 soil of the new world. A small cube of granite and a brick, 

 which we were informed by one of our sailors, a native of Wat- 

 ling's Island, was brought from the house of Columbus in Genoa, 

 complete the decoration of the monument. 



Our explorations were completed by a visit to Long Island, 

 lying some 50 or 60 miles southwest of Watling's Island, 

 where there is one good harbor on the eastern side at Clarence 

 Town, which was made a base of operations from March 16 to 

 19. Long Island lies on the same bank as the Exuma Islands, 

 which we explored two years ago, and contains many of the 

 species which we collected on that chain; a few were found 

 which we had not before collected in the Bahamas, the most 

 interesting of these being a low spurge {Euphorbia). Sailing 

 north from Clarence Harbor, or rather drifting, as we were here 

 delayed by two days of calm, we touched for a few hours at Cape 

 St. Maria at the northern end of Long Island on March 21 and 

 returned to Nassau, arriving there early in the morning of March 

 23, and proceeded to pack the collections, Dr. Millspaugh 

 returning to New York on the Royal Mail Steamer " Oronoco " 

 on March 25, Mrs. Millspaugh having preceded him, and Mrs. 

 Britton and I returning on the twenty-sixth by way of Miami. 



