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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II.—Natural Science 1891

1892

The shore is fringed with coco-nut trees in quite a thin belt where the ridges that compose the island come close to the shore and this fringe is broken hero and there -where those ridges end in abrupt headlands ; the belt widens however at the heads of the various bays and in two places in particular —on the eastern side of the island along the bay that extends southward from the north-eastern p [...] 4 opposed to their crests the under-jungle is not so dense largely owing to the mass of creepers being carried up to the tall trees above while on the neck of land that connects the main island with the peninsula at the north-east corner and on the narrow more level tongue that forms the south end of the main island and stretches towards Jerry Island the jungle is rather opener and more pene [...] The islands have all the physical features of the A.nda.man islands of the main chain as opposed to those of the Archipelago lying to the north-east of Port Blair ; the rocks indeed recall at once those of Ross Island and of the shores of Port Blair in South Andaman. [...] At low-tide the force of the surf is still all expended on the edge of the reef but as soon as the water has risen so high that the edge of the reef is covered this force instead of being dissipated in the deeper water of a pool is accentuated as the breakers roll landward across a reef on which the water shallows slightly as the shore is approached; by the290 D. Praia--The Vegetation of the Coc [...] The different stages therefore merely indicate that the sandstone reefs running out from the headlands in which the various ridges end are in different parts of the islands situated at different depths and the condition of the reefs indicates that the sandstone ledges are shallower and that deep water is further from tbo shore towards the south than towards the north end of the islands.
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157
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SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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XII.—Natural History Notes from H. M.’s I. M. Survey Steamer “Investigator” Commander R. F. Hoskyn R. N. Commanding—No. 25. The Vegetation of the Coco Group.—by D. Prain
283-406 W.L. Sclater, J.H. Walsh view
Notes on Some Native Ephemeridæ in the Indian Museum Calcutta.—by the Rev. A. E. Eaton M. A. F. E. S. Communicated by the Superintendent of the Indian Museum
406-413 W.L. Sclater, J.H. Walsh view
Errata in Mr. Theobald’s Paper on Punchmarked Coins in Journal As. Soc. Beng. Vol. LIX for 1890
414-414 W.L. Sclater, J.H. Walsh view
Index
415-438 W.L. Sclater, J.H. Walsh view

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