PHYSICAL FEATURES OF SAN DOMINGO. 



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coral reefs vliicli follow all the windings of the headlands and islets alono- the 

 seaboard. 



The main range, running from Cape Engano for 340 miles across the island 

 westwards to the St. Nicholas Mole, is at first merely a long ravined ridge, nowhere 





more than 1,000 feet high. But towards the centre it increases in height and 

 breadth, after which it ramifies into two branches, one of which runs north-west 

 in the direction of its prolongation in the island of Cuba. This main axis of the 

 Tlaiti orographic system has a mean altitude of over 6,600 feet, while some of its 



