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south-western direction, and terminates the northern range on 

 the E. Point Galera is low and rocky, with a constant heavy- 

 surf breaking on it ; from Galera to Cumana the coast is very 

 rocky and wild, with only one landing-place — within Forest 

 Point. Along the Cumana section are the following promon- 

 tories : — Forest, Cumana, Balandra, Salibea, Paloma, Pointe 

 Noire, and Matura. Ten miles southward of Cumana Point is 

 Point Manzanilla, presenting high cliffs towards the sea, and 

 trending suddenly westward by S. for about two miles. The 

 line of coast from Cumana to Manzanilla is a sandy beach, 

 running S. by E. From Manzanilla to Point Mayaro — a dis- 

 tance of twelve miles — the whole extent consists of a low sandy 

 beach, running S. by E. This section is separated from Mayaro 

 by a lofty promontory, or small peninsula, called Point Radix. 

 It is about two miles in extent, hilly, presenting everywhere to 

 the seaboard high perpendicular cliffs, terminating in two lesser 

 points, viz. : Point Guataro on the N., and Point Mayaro on the 

 S. From Mayaro to Galeota the distance is fourteen miles. 

 Here again the coast is a sandy beach, rising gradually towards 

 Galeota ; at a short distance from the sea the ground rises into 

 sloping hillocks. Cape Galeota is a high, rocky promontory, 

 running S.E., and then trending N. by W., so as to form a small 

 peninsula, sloping towards the northern or land side. It is con- 

 nected with the mainland by a neck of only one mile in breadth, 

 partly covered with mangroves. 



The western coast forms a nearly semi-circular curve. The 

 north-western angle of Trinidad, it would seem, has no name : 

 as a suggestion, it may be called Point Mono. It rises in a lofty 

 promontory, about two miles and a half in breadth, with two 

 points encircling a small cove ; the northernmost might bear the 

 name of Mono, the southern retaining that of Current Point. 

 From the latter to the town of Port-of-Spain the coast runs E. 

 by S. for about twelve miles, and terminates the western ex- 

 tremity of the northern range. From Port-of-Spain to the 

 mouth of the Guaracara — a stretch of twenty-five miles — it takes 

 a southerly direction, the ground being low, and in many places 

 swampy, and covered with mangroves. From the mouth of the 

 Guaracara to the lagoon of Oropuche — a distance of nearly nine 

 miles — its bearing is S. by W., and from Oropuche to Cape La 

 Brea — a further distance of five miles — it stretches nearly due 



