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Jupiter River June 18 Thursday
Same again.
A fine bright morning to be ashore but
there is no wind and we want to be at sea
to go either east or west! Then for the
breakers are rather strong in part of the river
mouth, the wind up the river instead of
out, and soon, the old old story of a
sailing craft. A gasoline engine would be
a very decided advantage to a sail boat
when you want to go. But those people are
too poor and too primitive for these things.
By ten o'clock it is dark with slight
rain. It rained then to 12 o'clock.
At 1 P.M. Argus and I go over and at
about 3 1/2 miles north of Jupiter River find thin
bedded blue limestone with shells arounding a
Steleopora, Philodictya, Gzyrospenia, Altypon,
Refringens and a chunk Harrisia radiata like
these (this is probably the Celypha enigmata of
Richardson), ?This is the D 70 = D9 in a way this fauna appears