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hoops, pine boards, and provisions come from the United 

 States in considerable quantities. Sugar and molasses 

 are exported, and occasionally tortoise-shell. The climate 

 is temperate and healthful. 



Naguabo (on the east side) has only about two thou- 

 sand inhabitants, and in the harbor there is another 

 smaller place, called Playa de Naguabo, or Ucares, with 

 about fifteen hundred. The capital of the department, 

 Humacao, is nine miles from Naguabo, and has four 

 thousand inhabitants, the district comprising more than 

 fifteen thousand. This department contains many fruit - 

 and cattle-farms, and also grows much coffee. The lands 

 are well irrigated by streams. 



Arroyo, in the district of Guayama (southeast portion), 

 is a small seaport of about twelve hundred inhabitants. 

 The annual exports to the United States average seven 

 to ten thousand hogsheads of sugar, two to five thousand 

 casks of molasses, and fifty to one hundred and fifty casks 

 and barrels of bay-rum. It is surrounded by a fertile 

 country devoted to the cultivation of sugar-cane. 



San German, situated on the large hill near the river 

 Guana jibo, founded in 1511, is in a district having a popu- 

 lation of 19,887 people, many of them well-to-do. There 

 are three public plazas, on one of which is the church, 

 with altars of marble, and an antique convent belonging 

 to the Dominicans. The city has a seminary, hospital, 

 and other institutions. The adjacent lands formerly pro- 

 duced large crops, but have deteriorated; nevertheless, 

 they are still more or less productive. 



Many villages of the interior are situated in the high- 

 lands and noted for their cooler temperature, shade, and 

 waters. Among these are Aguas Buenas, surrounded by 

 coffee- and fruit-gardens; Cidra, with its beautiful forests 

 and tall trees; Cayey, in the central cordillera, nestled 

 amid pretty forests and farms of rice and coffee ; Barros, 

 near the center of the island, noted for its coffee, woods, 

 and excellent cattle. 



Adjuntas is also situated in the central cordillera, and 



