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but nothing of note was seen or collected. From here we 
proceeded eastward over an old and much neglected road 
crossing several small rivers, whose banks afforded some addi- 
tional specimens and whose course would seem to justify further 
exploration as the vegetation is rich and of tropical appear- 
ance. After passing through the old town of Las Pozas, now 
tee by a few shacks, the sruire as ruins of an old 
k church and the crumbled wails of former houses, and 
ae Rio San Miguel, we passed over a peculiar formation of 
soft stratified yellow rock that seemed to be a mixture of sand 
and limestone eroded into small conical hills evidently very fertile, 
as the royal palm.grew upon their summits and sugar-cane was 
cultivated up the sides to the very top, but the most striking 
thing about them was that the tall river bank grass ‘‘cana brava”’ 
grew up the sides of these apparently dry hills. Near the 
roadside of this region was a large pool entirely covered by a 
dense growth of Chara. 
Buenaventura, the headquarters of the Buenaventura Fruit 
and Land Company, was reached in the afternoon. This was 
used as a base by Mr. Percy Wilson about a year ago, when he 
made an exploration of the region about Bahia Honda, and I was 
well received by his friends. I remained here over night in 
surroundings greatly in contrast to that of the several preceding 
ones, and I owe to Mr. John G. Keyser and to Mr. and Mrs. Gates 
my sincere thanks for their attention and hospitality. 
Next morning, Sunday, I started southward from Bahia Honda, 
wishing to reach San Diego de Tapia in the middle of the moun- 
tains early in the afternoon, and as an American concern had 
quarters established there, hoped to spend the remainder of the 
day collecting in the neighborhood, but although my practico had 
instructions from the folks at Buenaventura and claimed to 
know the way, the place was missed and we had to travel for 
some time after dark before coming to a Cuban home, where we 
stopped for the night swinging our hammocksina granary. This 
was called El Rosario, of which there are many in the province, 
and is well south of the divide as it required but a short time 
next morning until we had occasional glimpses of the southern 
