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Transcription
Wading north from South Beach to
the Light House me sees another bar
forming outside Anastasia. Inside of this
bar gradually the molluscs become more
and more abundant and finally at the Light
House me sees exposed in a Cliff about 8
feet high all of crquina. It is fairly regular
stratified through though some irregular bedding
but near unconform bedding. The great bulk
of the material consists of [illegible] broken and
dishevelled open valves of which area is the
most abundant. There are narrow layers in
which are the valves are really entire though
open. These crquina deposits are undoubtedly
by local and may be due to particular orates
where the molluscs can find unencrusted, and
than dead graded once a less abrupt into flat
layers with little or no sand ad only lime.
Oysters are rare in the Crquida.
What I saw was practically unconsolidated,
though many [illegible] were lying upon the beach
that were somewhat hardened though a little
gloomy in juxta on them while others though.