The Helios

THOMAS, District Judge.

Hogsty Reef is a coral formation in the West Indies. Its shape is that of a horseshoe, some 4 miles in. length from west to east. Its greatest width is 2-1 or 3 miles, and the entrance is at the western end, between two sandy keys, from a half mile to a mile apart, rising 10 feet or more above the water, and forming the calks of the shoe. The circle of the reef is in greater part submerged, but over it the water is carried, under the influence of sufficient wind, without immoderate or injurious disturbance of the interior water. The tide rises about 1-J- to 2 feet, is…