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rotting timbers along the west side e-£-4h<>-bw^ e and a few 
Pilings to the southeast of the island, which were probably left 
by the pearl oyster fisheries in the late 1920's. 
Grass Island: Located midway along the southern reef, Grass 
is about 1800 feet long in an east-west direction, and only 400 
feat wide at its widest point where a slight peninsula 
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southward at the extreme western enSl, The western end is presently 
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being eroded by the sea so that there is a vertical-drop of five 
feet from the vegetated area to the water} 1 
Only a portion of the western endless than 700 feet long* 
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in an east-west direction is vegetated. The dominant plant’ species 
is Solanum nelson! , which grows in a dense mat to a height of about 
a foot in the central 400 feet of this area. Between the Solanum 
and open beach is a sparsely vegetated area containing L eptu£u s, 
Trlbulus . Boerhavla and Solanum . Small plants of the first three 
species are scattered in the coral rubble of the western portion, 
but not on the beach sand. The rest of the island is composed of 
coarse to fine sand, with an area of coral rubble in the center oz 
the eastern portion. A spur of reef rock curves westward off the 
eastern tip of the island® 
In 1923 Dr. Wetmore, who named this island, recorMd in his 
field notes, "It is about 450 yards long by 100 yards wide, 15 feet 
high, surrounded by a beach of coral sand.* The crest of the island 
was covered with bunch grass^with a few of the shrubs recorded on 
Southeast Island. A direct comparison of photographs is poesible 
