fossils. The beds show a gentle dip of about 10° to- ward the west northwest. The soil is fertile and much sugar cane is raised, except near (within two or three miles ?) the northeastern coast, where there is too much salt in the at- osphere, on account of the strong trade winds blowing off from the ocean, and the rainfall his rain. The town of Le Moule has the only practicable harbor on the windward coast of Grande Terre, but its use is curtailed by the danger due to the breaking of heavy surf on the coral reefs near its entrance - The cliffs characterizing the Porte d' Enfer region are