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"Wednesday Jan. 16, 1929.
Again by ferry to Innisfree Hotel. Called east
and then south to get to the South Shore, but missed
the short roads and so had a long tramp. Intended
to come out to the South Shore Hotel but instead ar-
rived one mile over. Along the South Shore road
from Bearwell came upon a broad cutting that was
rich in Puccinia ignita. About a half mile farther was
where the road is nearest the sea, formed over the fields
when the dunes at high cliffs, probably 75 feet above
sea level. Here was a grove about one foot thick the
snails are wonderfully common and as they creation
out free one can get to P. termulensis in fine speci-
mens by the hundreds. Also got four or five other
snails. Our share all that I can use.
In the road side cutting came a poor
large gastropod, to me commonly used by the digenease
hermit crab, and which one of them had dropped off
the hill side when I found it.
Today saw no associated marine shells
flown into the dunes as I did some days ago.
The card reef here are out a few hundred feet
and to the Atlantic Ocean. Inside the reef saw
several fine sculpins atolls as figured by Perill,