6 Етовл оғ Мем PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
rocky ridges. The highest elevation on either island was about one 
hundred feet, but the ridge was in most places considerably lower 
than this. On Andros, the highest point was near the center of 
the island, at the mouth of the northern bight, marked as Salva- 
dor Point on the charts but locally known as Bearing Point. The 
surface erosion was much more marked on Andros than on New 
Providence. In some places the rock was honeycombed with pits 
of all sizes, in others it was covered with sharp, knife-like projec- 
tions. Banana holes were far more numerous. On both islands 
the elevated ridges, covered with Ше“ coppet," showed the greatest 
amount of erosion. The trees most commonly met with were 
the gum elemi (Bursera Simaruba), the poison wood (Metopium), 
the wild cassada (Dipholis salicifolia), the horseflesh (/уз ота 
paucifoliola), and the Madeira (Swietenia Mahogant). Asa rule the 
trees were comparatively small, not more than a few inches in 
diameter. The largest and tallest were seen in what was called 
the “high coppet" near Deep Creek, Andros. One horseflesh 
there measured five and a half feet in circumference at a distance 
of four feet from the ground; another six feet four inches, while 
the largest mahogany seen was between two and three feet in 
diameter. Common among the underbrush were the cockspur 
thorn (Pisonia aculeata), the chawstick (Gouania Domingensis), 
hardhead (Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus), Erithalis fruticosa and Du- 
ranta repens. Among the climbing plants the dream vine (Achites 
umbellata), Triopteris rigida, and [pomoea sinuata were common. 
The coppet was usually quite difficult to penetrate, the trees being 
mostly small and close together and the underbrush dense. 
The third region was the “ pine-yard” or pine barrens. This 
was a comparatively level region occupying the interior of both 
islands and covered almost exclusively with the Bahaman pine 
(Pinus Bahamensis). Where the ground was a little elevated there 
were small coppets or islands, as it were, of angiospermous trees ; 
where it was lower and more moist, occasional clumps of palmetto 
varied the monotony. The Bahaman pines are tall and slender 
and do not branch until quite near the top. The tallest we saw 
was about seventy or eighty feet in height and the largest was four 
feet and nine inches in circumference. They do not grow close 
together but are usually from ten to twenty feet apart even when 
