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trees is what is known locally as ‘Madeira wood.” This is the 
mahogany tree, Swietenia Mahagoni Jacq., and reaches its great- 
est acai in i ide although it is found scattered 
throughout in smaller trees 
The regions in the ee vicinity of Cabbage Pond and 
Smith’s Thatch Pond, ans alluded to, are in reality savan- 
nahs, but of restricted area. At these two places the all-prom- 
inent feature is the Vode which gives the character to the land- 
scape. One can hardly realize while there, with the truly tropical 
aspect produced by these palms, that but a few steps beyond the 
arid faa scrub again holds sway. 
e on the subject of the savannahs I wish to speak of the 
large cy of salt water, called Salt Lake, which I was informed 
as no visible inlet or outlet. This occupies a large part of the 
interior of Great Inagua, the Upper Savannah touching upon its 
western end. We visited this lake while at the Upper Savannah. 
It reminds one of the savannah itself flooded with water, for the 
same coppices dot its surface as small islands. We were not able 
to visit these islands for lack of aboat. This lake is not baome 
on my chart of that region, which is a copy corrected by 
Hyéeeeriphie Office up to September 30, 1904. J have oe 
only report to rely on as to size, and a personal visit as to the loca- 
tion of its western end. I was informed that the lake is eighteen 
miles long and about six miles wide at its broadest part, with a 
depth in some places of five or six feet. Certainly it must be of 
i extent, for it reaches to the eastward as far as the eye 
On unt of this indefinite information I have ee 
its Saino A size on the accompanying map by a dotted line. 
The salina is another of the formations. This is a depression 
in the scrub in which has apparently collected the wash from 
the surrounding ridges of rock or sand, and the resulting soil is 
a sticky compound most unpleasant to walk in when wet. € 
salinas are beer more or less filled with water, although at 
times some of the smaller ones at least must be perfectly dry. 
The soil must = decidedly salt, for the characteristic flora is a 
salt-loving one. The predominant shrub is Azicennia netida Jacq., 
which sends up its aerial roots in all directions; the mangrove 
