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The Loma Daguilla (Lace-bark Hill), an isolated mountain 
about 600 feet high, situated about 
ef be : 
; rather dant; its inner bark is 
separable into a delicately beautiful netted fiber, and there are 
ther rare and interesting species in the woodlands he 
geological structure here see be complicated; near the nor- 
er se of the mountain, r e road to Sa: Fe crosses 
an arroyo, a crystalline limestone tae the slopes of the 
mountain are main e ds t; t, while s ome limestone 
of this mountain vould 
on instructive. The top of “this mountain is bare of 
an id 
e. 
In the northeastern part of the island, rough hills and moun- 
tains of crystalline limestone, covered with hardwood forest, 
topographical features. h ‘a de las Casas, 
est fd southwest of Nueva Gerona, reaches altitudes of about 
800 feet (our barometric measurement) and trends nearly nor 
and sout he Sierra de los Caballos, east and southeast of 
ueva Gerona, ascends to about 1,000 feet.* Both of th 
8 are pic sees precipitous, some of the cliffs being 
ic r 
nes vertical and several hund feet high, often thickly 
clot by the mag ee or a plant oF oe Isle of Pines 
(A ‘Dp d by the large 
th 
and —— hives ao ce: ibon ae (Bombax emarginata), 
one of the few deciduous-leaved trees of he flora, Saray 
bare of foliage at the time of our visit; both 
orographically, and in some floral features, these mountains 
resemble some of the mountains of Pinar del Rio. This crystal- 
(Ce; h 
orner of the island, and the little hills Ga San Juan d 
nnings, Amer. Fern Journ., 1: 130. 
