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of the shore line to the west may also have acted there to a less extent, 

 but perhaps quite enough to have obliterated the lines of some of the 

 terraces intermediate between those which at Caleta Point have been 

 designated as one to five. From the Juragua mines one gets an excel- 

 lent distant view of the shore limestone hills stretching to the west and 

 east, and well separated from the inner range which forms a part of 

 the mass of Gran Piedra. At Saboney, and at several places on the 

 way from Santiago along the outside of the line of the railroad, small 

 boat harbors have been formed on a diminutive scale by erosion, very 

 similar to the larger ones so characteristic of the Cuban coast, and 

 of which Guantanamo (Plate XIV. Fig. 5) and Santiago are the two 

 finest examples on the southern coast. Many bights on the coast have 

 been produced in a similar way. Neither at Santiago nor at Guan- 

 tanamo do we find any trace of terraces along the sides of the eroded 

 limestone hills which surround these harbors. They have been obliter- 

 ated by the wash along their sides into the drainage basin fringing the 

 bays. On our way east from Santiago we so timed our start as to see by 

 daylight that part of the coast near Santiago which we had passed after 

 dark. To the westward of the entrance of Santiago the terraces are most 

 indistinct, the third terrace being alone fairly defined, while to the east- 

 ward a fine line of terraces can be seen from the sea. We were able to 

 get a distant view of the second and third terraces running along the 

 hill slopes above the first terrace, forming the road-bed of the railroad 

 leading from Santiago to Saboney. Through the gap at Saboney we 

 could see the line of the Juragua mines on the foothills of the Gran 



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Piedra. To the eastward of the Saboney Gap, before reaching the pier 

 of the Spanish American Mining Company, one of the foothills shows 

 four terraces quite plainly, the same number which on our way to 

 Santiago we had seen on the isolated hill near Baitiqueri River. 



