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in this latitude, so early rising and early retiring are the rule. 
Light rains are of frequent occurrence but the sun dries out every- 
thing so quickly that they cause little inconvenience to the col- 
lector. Often at midday the mist fills the valley and shuts 
Cinchona away from the rest of the world but at evening it rolls 
down to the west and makes a glorious sunset. 
here are treasures for the botanist along every path leading 
from the buildings but the ferns surpass the others in number 
and variety. Morse’s Gap is about four miles away by an easy 
path and the wealth of tree-ferns and filmies, vines and bromeliads 
Fic. 35. Market at St. Helen’s Gap near Cinchona. 
is a sight worth the whole Jamaica trip to the uninitiated. There 
are many other localities, equally wonderful, such as the maze 
of tree-ferns at Monkey Hill, where one makes his way over and 
under fallen trunks as best he can, quite awed by the silence and 
the beauty of the place, and calls out to the guide frequently to 
be sure that he is not lost. 
In making excursions into the bush there could not be a 
keener guide than David Watt, who has collected with different 
English and American botanists until he has a remarkable verbal 
knowledge of the mountain flora. The collector finds it neces- 
