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by train for Balaclava, which we reached at 3 o’clock, in time 
to drive the _ eight miles to Troy before sundo 
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the edge of the Cockpit Country. He also has charge of the 
immense government holdings to the north and west of Troy 
and Tyre. Mr. Carter’s house is situated on an eminence 
overlooking a beautiful valley, the slope on the north side 
adjoining the yard being covered with between one hundred a 
fifty and two hundred species of native trees, the individuals 
well separated and splendidly developed, forming the finest 
natural arboretum in the island, if not in the West Indies. Some 
photographs of these trees were taken for publication by Mr. 
Cousins shortly before our visit. 
On Tuesday, January 12, Mr. Harris and I collected in Troy, 
securing over a hundred species, many of them different from 
those seen elsewhere. A gray, campanulate species of Laschia, 
foun r. Harris, was particularly interesting and attractive. 
I discovered an undescribed — of Boletus, a six in all 
known from tropical Amer On January 13, we spent the 
day in Tyre, being fully as penne as on the previous day. 
We were fortunate in having fair weather, as it usually rains in 
the Cockpit Country, and we had a guide who knew the “ yam- 
trails,” the “ water-holes,” and the wet and dry localities to 
Aes He carried a “ fire-stick,” most of the natives 
here do, with which he quickly made a a at noon to keep 
away the swarms of mosquitoes while we ate our lunch. His 
small son carried a large calabash gourd filled with water, this 
being the only water we saw during the day except in one deep, 
shady ravine where a deposit of a had prevented its escape 
through the porous limestone below 
Parrots are abundant in this region, the yellow-billed species 
being most common. Wild pigs are frequent and are often 
hunted. The natives dig wild yams and cultivate small patches 
of cocoa, pimento, annatto, ginger, coffee, bananas, yams and 
sweet potatoes. On the larger estate, cattle are raised, and 
bananas, coffee and pimento grown on an extensive scale. Most 
of the region, however, is uncultivated oe uninhabited. 
