quantities in the tidal lagoons in the formation stage where it is still white and free of vegetable matter. Roughly the main soil divisions are: A fairly fertile semi loam like soil. Found mostly about the foot of the abrupt outcrops, or in pockets where it has been trapped by the coral dykes. Generally speaking these areas grow a fairly tall forest of teak, and other trees and form the true forests of the island. These areas are very irregular in size and distribution, but generally speaking, are small except for a long thin more or less continuous strip along the western side of the higher 60-100 ft. coral outcrops along the east coast and an area immediately to the north and south of the higher central connecting neck of the island. The area to the immediate south of this outcrop being by far the most extensive and most fertile on the whole island. Fair depths of soil 4 and 5 feet appear in pockets in this area but most of it is not more than 1' to 18'' in depth. Coral rock outcrops appear everywhere irregularly in it and I doubt one could find an area anywhere in it 100 yards square without a pure stone outcrop appearing. As this area is considered the only really worth while place to plant yams on the whole island it is much worked for gardens, natives from the N & S of the Island being granted small plots of land by the owners of the land for annual yam gardens and paying fees in cash or kind (taru, fish, coconuts, etc) for the use of the land. A rather infertile shallow sandier loam type of soil. These areas are fairly extensive all over the island in places west of the other types. They form a type between the areas of more fertile soil and swamps. Most of them are merely a thin 2 or 3 inch layer of soil over a soft white sand which is a soft