observations,t while they are fresh in my mind, even 
should lack the stamp of elaboration. 
I shall speak now of the organic life of the sea-shore, and 
= eae upon the geological formation of the coas t, and U 
the nature of the sea, these subjects will first be erode 
1. The Sea-shore. 
The northern shore of the southwestern neck of Hayti ‘ 
mostly céte de fer, that is, an iron-bound coast. There are but 
few small sandy bays, which serve as landing-places for the fish 
ing boats, and near them are generally found huts of fishermen, — 
or a small village. 
. The rock which bounds all the rest of the coast is a hard brit 
= tle limestone, formed very generally of a conglomeration of Mad- 
s repores and other corals, as Astras, Mee andrine, Millepore, ett., | 
and of various kinds of shells, cemented with a mass of — 
oa winter season of the furious north wind. The species of ‘ 
Is and shells which enter into the composition of this rock, L 
Parad nearly all alive in the adjoining sea. Some of them, how- 
ever, have disappeared from among the living; others are dying 
ma are now very rarely found, though common in the re 
uals Thay ae the ape Ptershics in > te > they ? 
eae without any remarkable pi pe of our globe, Ce 
species of animals gradually die gee 
same rock, composed of Spedaee fossils and their detritus, = 
| the interior mountain regions of the island, about 
s of the Boston Society of Natural History. ee 
were made in in company with my friend Mr. Edward 
a eciany. , on our walks along the sea-shore, 
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