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Mont Chambord are some small currents when the weather is not 



too dry. 



The larger valleys open on a bay and there the coast is flat 



whereas almost everywhere else a rather steep coast is to be 



found. 



The size of these bays is in direct proportion to the plains that 



end in them. The larger bays are separated from the sea by 



shoals and the inner seas thus formed are made use of as 



Saltponds. 



The largest bays are found near the transversal valley Grande 



Case, near Orientbay and at Filipsburg, which is built on a 



sandbank. 



General notes. 



Whereas the map added indicates the distances between the 

 islands, the following may serve to inform. 

 Cleve^) says: „The islands north of Guadeloupe from two parallel 

 „chains from North-west to South-east. The western chain com- 

 „mences with Saba and consists of St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Nevis, 

 „Redonda and Montserrat. All of those islands are volcanoes and 

 „if the line were extended farther to the north it would reach 

 „the island of Amegada, of postpliocane date and all the volca- 

 „noes seem to be of the same or nearly the same geological time. 

 „East of the volcanic range is another completely different range 

 „of islands. They are not volcanic and commence with Sombrero 

 „comprising Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, Barbuda and 

 „Antigua. All of these islands are of the tertiary age, eocene, mio- 

 „cene and pliocene." 



Although I do not agree with Cleve here, who wants to separate 

 the group of St. Martin from the Virgin Islands and denies as such, 

 that a connection might have existed between the great Antilles 

 and the group St. Martin I want to state that we see clearly 

 mentioned here how wide a difference there exists between the 

 two groups the St. Martin plateau and the Christoffer chain. 



About the connection between Anguilla and St. Martin Spencer^) 



says: 



„The same limestone (we find in St. Martin) also occurs a short 



1) Cleve : On the Geology of the Northeastern West Indian Islands p. 19. 



2) Spencer: On the Geological and Physioal Development of Anguilla, St. Martin, 

 St. Bartholomew and Sombrero p. 526. 



