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break-water having been evidently derived in large part from the 

 bluffs. 



At the eastern end of the harbor the narrow beach, styled 

 the Haulover, between the main island at Manumet and the shore 

 end of Great Point, was broken through by the sea in the storm 

 during the night of December i6, 1896, and the opening has 

 become an inlet a mile in width, with a depth of eleven feet 

 at low water, each end of the remaining beach having been 

 bent back into the harbor in the form of a curved hook. The 

 entrance of the tide through this inlet has caused a decided in- 

 crease in the five narrow bars of sand, which extend like finger 

 points from the shore of Coatue Beach. It does not appear to 

 have seriously affected the current at the break-water, nor re- 

 duced the scouring action of the tides at that point ; but shoals 

 seem to be growing at about one-third the distance between the 

 harbor and the port entrance, at the slackwater caused by meet- 

 ing of the tides from east and west. 



The eastern shore, from the harbor south, shows a rapid de- 

 struction by the sea, and at Squam Pond a river of beach sand 

 has been swept in. 



At Sankaty Light the apron beach has veiy considerably in- 

 creased, particularly at Siasconset, and to the south and west, 

 the width of the beach now reaching about the third of a mile. 



A similar advance of the sea is shown along the south shore, 

 though to a less degree than on the east, the wastage of both 

 shores having contributed to build out the apron beach at Sias- 

 conset. 



The subject was further discussed by Professors R. K. Dodge, 

 J. J. Stevenson, H. L. Osborn, J. F. Kemp and others. 



Several specimens of Laurentian limestone, magnetite and 

 corundum from the vicinity of the Palmer Rapids of the Mada- 

 waska River, Ontario, Canada, were exhibited. 



Alexis A. Juliex, 



Scartan'. 



