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The dark cypress looking water previously alluded to made its appear- 

 ance here a day or so ago, but did not fortunately remain more than 24 

 hours, but during that period there was again destruction of fish. 



Oct. 11th, at 7 a. m., saw the water a very dark color and dead fish 

 drifting southwest ; 9 a. m., dead fish on the beach and drifting by as 

 far as we could see east and west of the Key. 



Oct. 12th, 4 p. m., fish of all kinds on the beach, weighing from a few 

 grains up to Jewfish, weighing about 150 lbs. 



Oct. 13, 14, 15, and 16. — Dead fish drifting on this Key and at Fort 

 Jefferson, distance from this Key 3f miles. 



Names of some of the dead fish : — 



Jewfish, 



Yellow Tails, 



Mutton Fish, 



Grouper, 



Skipjack, 



Eunners, 



Grunts, 



Porgie, 



Pogie, 



Three-tailed Porgee, 



Common Garfish, 

 Sucking Fish, 

 Lump Suckers, 

 Mursena, 



Armed Enoplossus, 

 Pennant's Globe Fish, 

 Horned Ostracion, 

 Great Pipe Fish, 

 Porcupine Fish, 

 Kibbon Fish, 



and fish we call Parrot, and numberless fish I have no name for. There 

 is a fish called Snapper that we could not find dead, and have not seen 

 since alive up to the 27th, but the water remains quite clear. 



Oct. 30 and 31. — The water colored a light brown. 1 do not see any 

 fish dead or alive. 



THOMAS MOORE, 



Keeper of Loggerhead Light, Florida. 



Canthorinu8 occidentalis, (GUnthrr). 

 Tetrodon Icevigatw, (Linn.) Gill. 

 Chilichthy8 teatudineus, (L.) Mull. 

 Ostracium quadricorne, Linn. 

 Acanihurm nigricans, Linn. 



Heliasies insolatua f, Cuv.& V«al.,= C/trowi'a 



(fide Gill). 

 I'omacentru8 leucoslictus, Miill. & Trosch. 

 Apogon sp., probably imberbis. 

 Parcqum acuminatus, (Bl. Sch.) Gill. 



