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Along the Cumana section are the following promontories : 

 Forest, Cumana, Balondra, Salibea, 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 Man- 

 zanilla, is a sandy beach, running S. by E. From Manzanilla to 

 Point Mayaro a distance 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, pre- 

 senting 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 connected with the mainland by a neck of only 

 one mile in breadth, covered with mangroves. 



The western coast forms a nearly semicircular 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 extremity 

 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 Orapuche a distance of nearly nine miles 

 its bearing is S. by W., and from Orapuche to Cape La Brea 

 a further distance of five miles it stretches nearly due W. ; 

 from Point La Brea to Point Icacos it runs W. J S. for 

 nearly twenty-four miles. Besides Point Mono and Current 

 Point already mentioned, we meet, westward of Port of Spain, 



Ith Punta Gorda, or Big Point, formed of compact limestone, 

 d which divides the port of Chaguaramas from that of Carenage. 



