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GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF 



B A KB ados: 



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** Pulaabuntque novi moniaua cacumina Jluctus. 



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It would be impossible by any similitude to 

 illustrate suiEciently the irregular figure of Bar- 

 bados. It is twenty-one miles in length; and its 

 irreatest breadth docs not exceed fourteen. It is 

 situate in (lie thirteenth degree of North latitude, 

 and the fifty-ninth of West longitude. 



That portion of the coast, the aspect of which is 

 to the West, and to the South, is generally shelving 

 to the sea, with a flat shallow beach j the Sou th- 



Eastern, and the Northern coasts are, on the con- 

 trary, per|)endi'cularly precipitous from thirty to 



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sixty feet, and the water immediately become 

 deep, except in some of the small creeks, where 

 ) sandy beaches occur under the rocky cliffs. 

 The windward, or Nortli-Eastern coast, to the 

 extent of fifteen miles or more, exhibits a mixed 

 cliaracter, the low laud sinking very gradually 

 under the sea, and the rugged conical liills termi- 

 nating isot in mural precipices, but sloping abruptly 



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