96 Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 
about two miles long and one-eighth mile wide lies to the east. 
| of the one just mentioned, the two being separated by a deep 
muddy slough except at the lower end where the shoals join. 
In connection with the latter shoal five small oyster bars 
have been formed,—Cherry-Tree, Cedar-Shoal, Old-W omans- 
| Patch, Hickory-Nut and Sand-Lump. The greater part of the 
| bottom covered by each of these bars is composed of hard — 
sand but in.each case the oyster-producing bottoms have ex- 
| tended to and upon the adjoining soft mud. 
| 
In the part of the river above the mouth of Wetipquin 
Creek two bars were found,—Wetipquin bar and Upper Stake 
bar. The bottom of the former is formed of soft sand covered — 
with water from 9 to 14 feet in depth. Upper Stake bar once — 
included and was probably formed in connection with the 
sandy shoal lying just above it. The lower third of this bar _ 
has a bottom of soft mud and sand, the upper part being hard. 
The water over it is 7-11 feet deep. 
is The densities of the water observed during the survey over — 
the bars in Nanticoke River are as follows: ; 
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(eee Roaring Point, East bar..... 1.011 to 1.012 
A Wilson Shoals bar.......... 1.0102 to 1.011 
i Cedar Shoal bar............ 1.0094 to 1.0106 
| Wetipquin bar ..............1.0094 to 1.011 
7 Upper Stake bar............ 1.009 to 1.011 
The bottoms available and well adapted for oyster culture, — 
aggregating an area of about 500 acres, are found just above — 
Upper Stake bar, between Wetipquin and Sand Lump bars, — 
on the shoal in the middle of the river above Long Shoal bar — 
‘and in part of Ragged Point and Roaring Point coves. 
