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one of the most beautiful and interesting in the West Indies, a 

 capitally constructed stone roadway running up the valley of the 

 river, usually at considerable altitude above it, and winding among 

 the hills, bringing an ever-changing and characteristic landscape 

 into view ; the northern coastal plain of the island, here given 

 over to sugar cane, is succeeded by the thick limestone, nearly 

 horizontally bedded and eroded into craggy hills, the central mass 

 of eruptive rocks of the island being reached a few miles north 

 of Utuado, and here the character of the flora, as well as of the 



Jose Lorenzo Casaldu. 



n the vicinity of Utuado, where 

 ince and pleasant guidance by Don 

 a resident of that town, but the special 

 ts of two high mountains, Mt. Morales, 

 tant, which was twice ascended, and Mt. 



