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154 On the Pitch Lake of Trinidad. 
I could ascertain, are the only ancient rocks, as they are the only 
mountains in the island 
A road leads up from the landing to some sugar estates beyond 
the lake. It ascends a gentle slope of hardened pitch which 
- where left to itself is covered with a dense growth of reeds an 
bushes, but where broken up by cultivation produces abundantly 
the usual tropical garden fruits. 
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