Porto Rico is only one hundred miles long and about thirty-five miles wide, yet its inhabitants number more 

 than 1,200,060. i. Some 50,000 are crowded into the small area of San Juan, and everywhere over the island — • 

 on the open plain, in a valley hear the coast, or in remote and unlikely hollows of the hills are small towns of some 

 15.000 each , , 





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On the soulluTii side of Uie central range Llic land drops more rapidly to the plains of the islands jjeriphery. 

 Here irrigation is necessary in order that sugar cane may be grown, for the moisture of the trade winds 

 condenses on the northern slopes. The land becomes a desert bearing several species of cactus 



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