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Mar 10-11, 1887
Note coquina & sand rock out side of Little Gasparilla Inlet, Casey's Pass and point south of Fish ranche inside of Gasparilla. Living coral to Sarasota.

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Saturday Mar 12 / 87
Go to White Beach about 5 miles Northward from Webbs on mainland shore of Little Sarasota Inlet. These are visible at high water mark on beach about two feet or less of limestone rock with a covering 1/2 in to 3 in of recent sand & lime incrustation like that at St. James. The lime rock is chiefly full of distorted casts or rather molds of shells which have been dissolved away and of various corals, corallines Polyzoa etc. In some places the molds have been filled with a harder deposit from around which the matrix has washed away leaving