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Porte d'Enfer it is com- /18
posed of a heavy bed of brain-
coral agglomerate, lying
upon a grayish or yellowish
green calcareous sand-rock.
The sand-rock is exposed for a-
[illegible] ten feet above sea level,
is free from the large masses of
which characterizing the upper bed
coral and has been much black-
ened by the action of the seawater.
There is no apparent discordancy
between the sand rock and
the overlying agglomerate. The
strike of the beds is about 2[illegible]
N. 30° E. and the dip 10° or 12°
toward the N.N.W. Near the sea
the surface of the rocks, where
nearly horizontal, is roughly er-
oded, as at Le Moncel and
the Porte d'Enfer. The