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The San Carlos
GUS A. MULLER, PROPRIETOR
POST OFFICE BOX 668
W. N. URMEY
SUCCESSOR TO
Miami, Fla.
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Agassiz thinks the sands are due to the mechanical motion and
subtraction of the sea water.
The Everglades he regards as a sink or a series of sinks into which the sand
has been thrown in the form of dunes and then eroded and subsequently by precipitation
at the same time carried to a general level. This sand was derived from the
outer coral reefs now elevated in Golden Key and southward to Indian Key. In
other words, there was a series of keys back of these reefs or Keys just as there
were and they were very filled with the growth of the reefs that developed in those
shallow waters in the Atlantic orbit. The cross bedding in the orbits is not so
general as Agassiz thought. He would also think the orbits formed under water (36)
Bort Key on the elevated reefs the head thorns of echini, sponges, sponges and
Horseshoe crabs. A good place to see,
Indian Key a good place to see the elevated coral reef. Lower Matecumbe and
Fort Bay Largo are other good places to see the elevated reefs.
The recent and elevated reefs have a width of about nine miles in the region of
Boca Chica and the Marquesas.
Elliot Key the elevated reef grows or made up of large canchas.
Plantation Key has the elevated coral reef is fast ships.
The best places for the elevated reefs are Sand Key, Bahia Honda, Indian
Key, Key Largo, Lower Matecumbe, Old Rhodes, Elliot,
Ragged and Golden Keys (38).