. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. AGASSIZ: BAHAMAS. 59 Going on shore, we found it composed of the ordinary ceolian rock of the Bahamas, its character admirably shown in the cuts made for the boat landing and for the foundation of the derrick used in handling the supplies. The cay, wherever exposed to the strong waves of the Gulf Stream, is deeply pitted and honeycombed. We found a few speci-. Gl'S CAT. mens of the same pupa so common on other islands of the group. The vegetation was very scanty, — a few scattered specimens of cac- tus, wild
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. AGASSIZ: BAHAMAS. 59 Going on shore, we found it composed of the ordinary ceolian rock of the Bahamas, its character admirably shown in the cuts made for the boat landing and for the foundation of the derrick used in handling the supplies. The cay, wherever exposed to the strong waves of the Gulf Stream, is deeply pitted and honeycombed. We found a few speci-. Gl'S CAT. mens of the same pupa so common on other islands of the group. The vegetation was very scanty, — a few scattered specimens of cac- tus, wild grape, wild geraniums, and verbena, — with the usual plants characteristic of the- shore belt throughout the Bahamas. Among the most prominent rocks north of Gun Cay, between it and the Beminis, are Turtle Rocks, forming a low rocky soolian ridge. The Beminis. Plate XII. Fig. 2. The Gulf Stream skirts close to the western edge of the two Beminis. They are separated by a picturesque opening, forming an excellent har- bor even for boats of a considerable size. At the south end of both South and North Bernini we find a long line of angular seolian rocks thrown up by hurricanes well above high-water mark, often fully twenty feet. From here to the northern end extends a long coral sand beach, disconnected in many places by extensive patches of shore built coral rocks, covering in many places the underlying eeolian formation. The greater part of the shores of the Beminis is made up of this shore deposit, piled up above the older seolian rocks wherever they have been washed away, and forming small cliff's along the northern face of the western shore line of North Bemini. Here and there an occasional cliff of the older seolian is seen, but greatly weathered and worn, as near the northern extremity of North Bemini, some distance above the village. The sea has thrown up a high beach and formed a lagoon at that end, which is filled with mangroves and small mangrove islands. The outlyi
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