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THE RED HILLS. 



"April \9th, 1848. — Mr. Johnston's information 

 respecting the district in Portland inhabited by the 

 Indian Cony, showed that two conditions were 

 necessary to constitute a befitting locality for it. 

 Surface rocks, replete with cellular hiding-places, 

 and abundance of succulent roots, fruits, and herbage. 

 Our limestone hills bordering the plain of St. 

 Catherine, are all well-marked with the first requi- 

 site, the cellular hiding-places ; but it is only the 

 Red-hills that supply the necessary exuberance and 

 diversity of vegetable food : — there alone the Indian 

 Cony is common. In the limestone districts, defi- 

 cient in moisture and herbage, it is scarce, if not 

 altogether unknown. Fruit trees, such as oranges, 

 star-apples, nesberries, and Avogado-pears, together 

 with plums, guavas, anonas, and plantains, abound on 

 the Red-hills, and tuberous and farinaceous vegetables 



adult, disjointed, in spirits. In excellent condition, but wanting the 

 central portion of the trunk. 



