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uniform so far as we observed it, no point more than about 
twenty feet above the sea being noticed, although the charts 
indicate that some of it at least, rises to fifty feet. The extensive 
forest of the Caribbean Pine (Pine caribaca Morelet ; Pinus baha- 
mensis Griseb.), reaches from Eight Mile Rocks apparently 
nearly or ae - the extreme eastern end of the Island, and in 
places extends from the north to the south coast, though the 
southern coast is ne ae ae by a belt of scrub land or 
coppice, with some swampy palmetto lands locally near the sea. 
The flora of this pine forest was most interesting, resembling to 
a considerable extent that of the pinelands of New Providence, 
and pag of seit Florida, but containing a number of species 
hitherto unknown to grow in the Bahamas, among them two 
asters, er ee and showy purple flowers, two kinds of 
thistle, a species of golden aster (Chrysopsis) and a number of 
other herbaceous plants; the coppices and scrub lands yielded 
