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soil than a thickner from 2 to 4 feet
thick, on the irregular surface of
which the sea invaded. At the P.O.
site in Manatee Ave (cor ? 7 or 8th)
the white sand has my cares an
oyster or portland shell, but in
the next block east there is an abundance
of oyster shells showing the inundation
that it have been in an arm of the Gulf.
The bottom of the Post Office cellar
is replete with oysters and is not more
2-3 feet above high tide at present.
Evidently his old much to me of
the little aerial tories when the sea
level stood over the water 50 feet
or higher lower than it does now. Then
the sea level rose and stood 15-20
feet higher than it does now,