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generally unfit for the cultivation of oysters. The specific gravity at the mouth, at one-half 

 flood, was 1.0196. The total area of the river is 360 acres. Area of natural oyster beds 7.5 acres. 



Tybee Cut is a small shoal stream separating Cabbage Island on the south from Wilming- 

 ton Island on the north. The bottom is too soft for the cultivation of oysters. At the mouth 

 entering Wilmington River the specific gravity at low water was 1.0195; at high water, 1 

 mile above the mouth, 1.0124. Total area is 145 acres. Area of natural oyster beds, 10 acres. 



Turner's Creek is a narrow, winding stream, separating Wilmington Island on the south 

 from White Marsh Island on the north. It is about 4 miles in length, and about two hundred 

 yards in width, and is the connecting link between Tybee River and Wilmington River. A 

 few oysters of a poor quality were found in this river, but the water is too fresh, or liable to 

 become so, to admit of oyster cultivation. The bottom is soft mud with an occasional spit of 

 hard sand. The total area of the creek is 192 acres. Area of natural oyster beds, 10 acres. 



Tybee Creek and Little Tybee Creek are two small streams which flow through the wooded 

 hummocks of Tybee Island into the sea. They were not examined, being of little commercial 

 importance, as their mouths are obstructed by shoals with but 2 or 3 feet at low water. I was 

 informed that a few oysters of a fair quality could be found in places along their shores. 



Romerly Marsh Creek comes into Wassaw Sound near the mouth of Wilmington River. For 

 the first two miles it extends west, and is about four hundred yards wide, and the depth of 

 water ranges from 1 2 to 30 feet. Beyond this it narrows and divides into several small, tortuous, 

 and shoal streams, containing here and there a small natural bed of oysters of inferior 

 quality. The bottom is soft and generally unfit for oyster cultivation, the water being also 

 very salt. The total area of this creek, with its small tributaries, is 250 acres. Area of natural 

 oyster beds, 10 acres. 



The specific gravity at its mouth, at three-fourths flood, was 1.0228; 2 miles above the mouth, 

 at two-thirds flood, 1.0222. 



Odingsell River begins in the Romerly marshes and flows nearly south for abotit 3 miles, 

 where it empties into Ossabaw Sound. It separates Wassaw Island from Little Wassaw Island, 

 and averages about one-eighth of a mile in width. The depth of water ranges from 13 to 40 

 feet. The bottom is generally soft mud, with an occasional sticky spot and streaks of sand 

 and mud. The water in this river is very salt, the specific gravity at the head being 1.0224 

 at low water. A greater portion of this river may be made available for oyster cultivation. 

 It has a total area of 350 acres, including Rhodes and Curtis creeks. The area of natural 

 oyster beds is 34.5 acres. On the natural beds there are more dead shells than oysters, and 

 the latter are very small owing to excessive fishing. In Rhodes and Curtis creeks the bottom 

 will generally be found to be soft mud. 



Wassaw Creek enters Odingsell River on the east side near its mouth. It is about 4 

 miles in length and from 10 to 20 feet deep, but only averages 100 yards in width. For the 

 first mile it has along each shore a narrow strip of natural oyster beds, the quality being 

 inferior and the beds containing many dead shells. The bottom is soft, except at a few points 

 near the shore, and generally unfit for the cultivation of oysters. 



The specific gravity 1 mile above the mouth at low water was 1.0232. Total area of creek, 

 130 acres. Area of natural oyster beds, 17 acres. 



Adams' Creek comes into Ossabaw Sound to the westward of Little Wassaw Island, which 

 it separates from Skiddaway Island. It is about 4 miles long, connects with Odingsell 

 River, has a general southwest direction, and averages about 10 yards wide. The depth of 

 water ranges from 6 to 25 feet, and the bottom is soft mud, except near the shore in places 

 where sand and mud and sticky bottom is found, and which is the only area here fit for the 

 cultivation of oysters. Total area of the creek is 256 acres. Area of natural oyster beds, 8 

 acres. 



The specific gravity 2 miles above the mouth, at one-third flood, was 1.0234. At the 

 junction with the Odingsell River, at half flood, it was 1.0239. 



