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attain an elevation of not more than 500 feet above the average height of Yucatan. 

 These rising grounds constitute a sort of backbone disposed in the direction 

 from south-east to north-west towards the blunt angle of the peninsula, and 

 connected with a ridge that skirts the west coast of Campeachy. Wooded bills 



Fig. 62. — Alacean Reef. 

 SCiile 1 : 230,000. 



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89"40 



Pepîhs. 



also run from south-west to north-eust in the direction of Cape Catoche. This cal- 

 careous mass, forming an almost geometrical square, is continued by a submarine 

 bank far beyond the coastline, except on the east side, which is washed by deep 

 waters where the plummet plunges into depths of se\eral hundred yards within 

 a few cable-lengths of the shore. The large island of Cozumel, with the banks 

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