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-Rock, Drum-Bay-Point Rock, Trevise’s Rock, Shell Rock, 
Buoy Spit Rock, Muddy Marsh Rocks, Bird Rocks, Hern 
Island Rock, Beach Island Rock, Parker’s Rock, and Brig 
Rock. 
In considering and describing the beds I shall separate the 
first ten from the others and as they are subjected to very 
similar conditions of bottom, current, and density of water, 
shall treat them under one head, as the Pocomoke Rocks. 
SCATTERED OYSTERS IN POCOMOKE SOUND. 
The area covered by scattered oysters is only approximate, 
it being very difficult to accurately define the limits. Gener- 
ally speaking the one fathom curve will nearly mark the in- 
shore limit, while the soft muddy bottom of the main channel 
will define the outer one. The depth of water over the scat- 
tered oysters and the character of the bottom can be ascer- 
tained by reference to the chart. Ho oysters were found in 
the deep channels nor on the shoal sand spits. 
The oysters are scattered singly and in groups, but usually 
grow singly, though numbers of small beds of a few hundred 
yards area are included within the limits of scattered oysters. 
In the vicinity of the Messongo and Guilford Creeks, the 
oysters seem to be scattered in that manner, the spaces between 
the groups being proportional to their sizes. V ery few oys- 
ters are found along the edge of the shoal on jthe western side 
of the channel south of the Muddy Marsh. In the channel 
itself no oysters were found. Opposite Beach Island, in from 
thirteen to fourteen fathoms, a few clams and shells were 
brought up. In this case, however, the bottom was of hard 
sand. 
The area covered, to a greater or less extent by the scat- 
tered oysters comprises 122,117.500 square yards, or 29.599 
square nautical miles. 
The proportion of oysters over this area, as near as I could 
ascertain, was about one hundred and seventeen thousandths 
to the square yard. 
