. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. AGASSIZ : BAHAMAS. 65 tories forming the southern edge of tlie harbor and the northern boun- dary of Cheroki Sound, while tlie promontory of Sweeting protects the northern side of Little Harbor. At Marsh Harbor settlement and at Black Point, both on Great Abaco, promontories nearly two miles in length are left as monuments of the former eastern extensions and connections of Abaco with the outer cays. In fact, very little more wearing away would separate the promontories forming Little Harbor from Abaco, and turn them
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. AGASSIZ : BAHAMAS. 65 tories forming the southern edge of tlie harbor and the northern boun- dary of Cheroki Sound, while tlie promontory of Sweeting protects the northern side of Little Harbor. At Marsh Harbor settlement and at Black Point, both on Great Abaco, promontories nearly two miles in length are left as monuments of the former eastern extensions and connections of Abaco with the outer cays. In fact, very little more wearing away would separate the promontories forming Little Harbor from Abaco, and turn them into cays similar to the outer line, leaving perhaps at the same time a second inner row of cays like those now in formation off so many parts of the eastern shore of Abaco, traces of which farther north are seen in the numerous banks of all sizes and shapes which exist both to the westward and to the eastward of the outer cays, being parallel to them in a general way. Great Abaco Island. Plate X. Fig. 1 ; Plate We made the lighthouse on Abaco Island at Hole in the Wall, the southern extremity of the Little Bahama Bank. That part of Abaco is low, with rounded outlines (Plate XL.). The rocky surface is bare, all that part of the island being exposed to the full action of the prevailing trade winds and swell. In consequence the shore is formed of low cliffs, having the peculiar basaltic appearance so characteristic of the darker limestone cliffs of the Bahamas. The surface of the island within reach of the action of the sea is pitted, honeycombed, and full of pot-holes. This is specially seen on the east face of the Lighthouse Hill and the spit to the south of it. A well marked narrow rocky promontory, covered near the shore by pinnacles, runs out from the southern end of the island, at the extrem- ity of which are situated two islets undermined at the base. Near the. HOLE IN THE WALL. extremity of this narrow promontory the sea has broken through and formed a large hole, wh
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