were of lime sand and gravel, often breccia-like in appear- ance, the hard lumps of which contained many small fossils, gastropods, lamellibranchs, etc., there were but apparently no corals in the western half of the island. (particularly Melanbrines) Corals are abundant, however, in the upper beds at Porte d' Enfer, Le Moule and Pointe des Chateaux along the north- eastern coast; and the rocks of Portte d'Enfer seems to be continuous to [illegible] Grande Vigie. At and above [illegible] sea level along this windward coast there is a beach band fifteen or twenty feet wide. This has been made by the ac- tion of sea beating against the cliffs. It differs some-