. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. There are many dressed and half-dressed building stones buried in the beach sands about the southern end of this reef. These stones are supposed to have been left here by the Dutch, as no one seems to know when they were taken out. It used to be supposed that the reef rock used at Pernambuco and Olinda for architectural purposes all came from the Pernam- buco reef. It appears, however, that the Gaibu reef was the source from which some, perhaps most, of this stone came. This reef protects no harbor, and, bein
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. There are many dressed and half-dressed building stones buried in the beach sands about the southern end of this reef. These stones are supposed to have been left here by the Dutch, as no one seems to know when they were taken out. It used to be supposed that the reef rock used at Pernambuco and Olinda for architectural purposes all came from the Pernam- buco reef. It appears, however, that the Gaibu reef was the source from which some, perhaps most, of this stone came. This reef protects no harbor, and, being close to Pernambuco, and in a bay where boats could readily be loaded, it offered a convenient source of supply of these excellent building stones without trespassing on the Pernambuco reef, which had greater value as a pi'otection to the port. The stone reef south of Cabo Santo Agostinho. â The finest stone reef on the coast of Brazil is the one lying immediately south of Cabo Santo Agostinho in the State of Pernambuco. No steamers enter the port behind this reef and no highways cross the hills of the Cape above it; being thus of but little com- mercial importance, the reef is only slightly or not at all known. Recent charts represent it in a con- ventional fashion. The best map I have seen of it is that of Lichthart, the Dutch cartographer, made more than three hundred years ago, and the only views of it hitherto published are the woodcuts given in Liais' UEspace Celeste (pp. 542, 546). As in other cases, we are concerned to a certain extent with the physical features of the country on the land side of the reef. In this instance these features are so broad that their relations to the his- tory of the reef are not so clear as they are in the cases of several of the small reefs with a similar history, but with a more compact topograph}'. The features of the region as a whole can be seen best from the high hills on the southern side of the cape. The view is superb. To the lef
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