MUGGRES ISLAND. 
fhe last day of 1894 we passed, late in the afternoon through a 
narrow and dangerous pass, past anvil rock ‘ave the harbor of Do- 
lores, Mlugeres Island. @his island is nearly five miles long and 
quite narrow. It is formed in the main of heavily bedded tertiary 
limestone, which rises some 10 or 15 feet above the sea at the 
_north point and some 60 feet at the South point. Much of the sur- 
face is covered by or consists of sand dunes over which a somewhat 
Sparse vegetation grows. ‘The west coast is rockbound from the 
harbor to the south point. 
fhe village of Dolores faces the harbor and extends back through 
sheltering and luxuriant groves of palms 100 to 150 yards to the 
sand ridge that faces the sea on the outer side. On this one 
side is a beach of sand on the other the waves dark against a low 
rough outcrop of the jagged limestone. 
A few hundred yards above the Island comes to a point and 
continues on a line of narrow remnants covered with vegetation a- 
bove and gnarled and rough at the sides, rising 10 to 20 
above water and terminating in anvil rock. 
of the house 
The floor/inside is not even, the door sills all flattened 
over rounding up a few inches. The walls are a little over two feet 
thick and rise five feet, which is about the top of the wooden lin- 
tels when the arches begin to rise, the stones projecting so rough- 
