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in the interior of the island. The region around Terrapin Road^ 

 and for a considerable distance south, is covered by a broad plain 

 which slopes gradually upward towards the southwest. There 

 are several steep hills on this portion of the island some of which 

 probably rise to a height of 500 ft. The color and general ap- 

 pearance of these hills indicated that they were composed of 

 tufa. This part of the island is covered with forests, apparently 

 made up of the forms usually found on the dryer parts of these 

 islands. 



There is a strip of country south of the wooded arear which is 

 covered with beds of basaltic lava on which there is apparently 

 little or no vegetation. This is followed on the southwest by 

 still another area covered with vegetation, which extends down 

 to within possibly three miles of Finger Point. East and south 

 of Finger Point the country is again covered with lava, a portion 

 of which is evidently volcanic cinders. There are many small 

 craters on the lava in this vicinity, fifty of which were counted 

 while sailing past this part of the island. 



The country around the northeastern end of the island, and 

 for some distance southwest along the east coast, is apparently 

 very similar to that around Terrapin Road. We did not get 

 very close to this part of the island so no very exact observations 

 could be made of its close features. The country around Fresh 

 "Water Bay, on the south side, is quite steep and is heavily covered 

 with dark green vegetation well down towards the shore. A 

 stream of water is said to enter the sea at Fresh AYater Bay, but 

 as there is no good anchorage here it was not visited. 



The interior part of the southern half of the island is a broad 

 plateau which varies in elevation from 900-1,600 ft. The pla- 

 teau is rolling and there are numeros small ravines which have 

 streams of water in them during a part of the year. Small 

 marshes are formed in some of the low^r places in this region 

 during the rainy season, but they quickly dry up soon after the 

 dry season sets in again. The main central mountain rises to a 

 height of 2.100 ft. and is composed of bits of volcanic cinders 

 and other fragmentary material all of which is very much decom- 

 posed. There is no indication of a crater here, the mountain ap- 

 parently being a huge pile of volcanic debris. A small crater 

 lake is located on this plateau but was not visited for botanical 

 purposes. 



This island is probably better watered than any other one of 



