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few feet above sea-level. This supports a dense vegetation, for 
this part of the world, and many trees 15 to 20 feet tall, with 
trunks 12 to 15 inches in diameter, rise up out of the solid floor 
of rock. The eastern end of the cay is rather thickly wooded 
with trees and shrubs; while the western end is more open, quite 
an extensive area there being entirely devoid of ligneous vegeta- 
tion, and supporting on the rocks, bare of soil, a luxuriant growth 
of the sea-beach morning-glory, Jpomoea Pes-Caprae (L.) Sweet. 
I have been familiar with this heretofore as a strand plant, and to 
find it in such luxuriance in the interior of the cay was a surprise. 
A species of fig was also quite common. In the open places trees 
of this attained considerable proportions ; one covered a circular 
area about thirty feet in diameter with a dense mass of green. 
This tree reached a height of about fifteen feet, thus being fully 
twice as broad as high. A small pond occurs in the western side 
of the cay, and on the northern side is quite an extensive cocoa- 
nut grove. There is not a sufficient depth of soil to make the 
trees as stately and fruitful as I have seen the cocoanut in other 
regions. The fruit here, as in other parts of the Inaguas, is 
of the tree was there, and this charm of elegance and stateliness 
was all the more striking here where all its associates are dwarfs. 
he mangrove, Rhizophora Mangle L., also forms part of 
the vegetation, but an inconspicuous part; in fact, it was but 
sparingly noted by us in the Inaguas, its presence occurring 
mainly sei the salt-water creeks, and sparsely on the salinas 
in the inter 
We eae next at Turtle Cove, a few miles to the west, and 
east inland about a mile to a slight elevation called James 
ill, which is about go feet antes sea-leve ts flora is similar 
to foe ] the surrounding scru Among ae cactus vegetation 
here was a species of iis! aoe found in ae abund- 
ance on Little Inagua) ; untia Dillenit Haw.; anoth er Opuntia 
belonging to the ye section (found also generally distri- 
uted on both islands, and quite common around Mathew Town, 
1063); and a species of the genus Cactus growing in great 
se often forming unbroken masses four or five feet across 
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