with an awful big head. The rain kept us all night and it rains this morning with the promise that it will do so all the morning. As the tide is high at 7 A.M. the line men can not get around the reefs until low tide. So they remain in camp smoking pipes until 9.30 A.M. I remain in camp too for the same reason and the further one this Dronell little to have the rain stop. The rain and fog will however will probably hold on all day. At 10.30 we started west in the fog and rain for Otter River. Porter rowed us around Ben River and immediately to the west of this river there are two cliffs, more or less undercut, for the next three miles. In character and form these beds are practically the same as those east of the Ben River. Only that to the west Pacelias is a very rare