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number of specimens which Mr. PORTER was kind 
enough to present to me. 
About a year ago, a new depth, behind the old back- 
dam, was taken into cultivation at Enmore. The new 
land was almost entirely swampy pegass, the ordinary 
"wet savannah" of the coast region of this colony. But 
running through this swamp for some considerable dis- 
tance, parallel to, but, if I am not mistaken, at a dis- 
tance of at least ten miles from, the present sea- 
line, is a natural reef of sea-shell evidently representing 
a former coast-line. Here and there along this reef a 
few trees had taken root and made as it were, islands 
in the sea of savannah grass. And where these isolated 
groups of trees occur, their leaves, continually dropping, 
have formed a deposit of pure black soil, slightly raised 
above the general level of the reef, and consequently 
still more above the level of the savannah. On one of 
these tree islands, situated in a direct line from the 
buildings at Enmore at a distance of about five miles, 
stand two very fine silk-cotton trees (Eriodendron an- 
jractuosum) and a considerable number of hog-plum 
trees (Spondias luted). It is in the soil of this island 
that most of the pottery as yet found has occurred. A 
few were, however, found in a somewhat similar 
island a few hundred yards to the right of that 
first mentioned. Again, as I myself saw, considera- 
ble numbers of fragments of rough pottery — though 
I saw none there of an ornamental kind — lie on the 
ground on another ' island,' on which the trees have 
recently been cut down, considerably more to the 
right, at the back of Bachelor's Adventure. These 
three deposits seem to be all of a very similar 
