35G 
KINGSTON HARBOUR. 
equal depth, ’and with a hard bottom of sandy loam. 
Mr. Robert Wilkie informs me that, in the month of 
April last year, he was spending some few weeks at 
Passage Fort for a change after a fever, and being 
induced to vary his boat-excursions by a row within 
these ponds, as the divisions are called, he was sur- 
prised by finding a couple of Dolphins sporting 
about them. The water being smooth and clear, 
never rising to anything more than ripples, and the 
ponds, though spacious, only filling the vision in any 
direction in which you look upon them, the Dolphins 
gambolling and rolling and tumbling from one end 
to the other, were always in sight, and their entire 
shape and magnitude visible in the water. Mr. Wilkie 
represents them to have been seven or eight feet long ; 
lead-coloured, long-snouted, and gracefully propor- 
tioned. The fishermen said that they had been then 
occasionally visiting, in and out, for some time. The 
waters teemed with Mullets and Callepivas, Snooks 
and Snappers. It was just then a mullet-season. The 
fishermen represented the Dolphins as making their 
visits on a particular day in the week. I fancy they 
mistook their own ‘ particular-day-in-the-week ’ visit, 
on which occasion they found them already there, 
— for the Dolphins’. Mr. Wilkie repeated his ex- 
cursion twice or thrice, and always saw the Dolphins. 
On the last occasion he made an effort to shoot them, 
but, though he had several shots, he did not succeed 
in their capture.” 
“ December, 1848. When I was in the last week 
of my late sojourn at Ray’s-town, that upper part 
of Kingston Harbour was regularly, • for some sue- 
