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beds, 
absolute and not partial. No beds of pearl oysters whatever 
Were present. From historical evidence it is clear that this 
n 
cial by currents and drift through Pamban Pass and the 
: annels of Adam’s Bridge. I think it probable that the Tondi 
even now be sending off swarms of spat to effect the 
Pear] oyster larvae: the current during part of that month 
cana: tinctly to the southward, hence we may hope that a 
7 derable multitude of spat passed through Pamban Pass 
wy over Adam’s Bridge into the Gulf of Mannar; a fresh 
ject of investigation in the present year (1915). In 
3 he foregoing, the discovery of the Tondi Pearl Bank 
‘AY well be considered as the beginning of a new era in the 
