on shore. On the sand spilling at Miami our barnacles and oysters. The mouth of Miami river is just to the south of the great railroad hotel and while it undoubtedly freshens the bay water its primary does act as a dry moat. In going across the water was seen tide quite clear and in its flats much grass that I take to be eel-like grass. On the eastern side of the bay one sees lying on the bottom many dead shells, and my long opinion round echinids. The spines seemed to be in places 3 inches long. Here and there patches of sea weeds and many small crabs around. It is a quiet water devoid of marked currents. The eastern strip of land appears to me to be nothing once than a sand drift thrown up by the trans elevation of injury not once than 6 feet. I saw no dunes, and the land is therefore at best 6 feet above the sea. The sand is rather coarse graind, slightly yellowish which under the present close shows to be largely made of shell fragments all rounded and highly polished! My little if it is comminuted ends. Though I saw some fragmentary and solid cylindrical animal rods that maybe spines of echini. There is also considerable of gritty sand. As me got to the actual sea shore the not