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boarded two weeks at Morant Bay, in 

 a delightful old Spanish mansion, an 

 ideal tropical home on a steep hill with 

 higher hills rising to the right towards 

 the distant Blue Mountains towering 

 among the clouds. In front and to 

 our left, we overlooked banana and 

 cocoanut plantations intersected by wind- 

 ing rivers emptying into the bay, which 

 bounded our horizon at a distance of 

 three or more miles. We were accorded 

 the use of the "trap" and a driver 

 to take us to the shore when we wished 

 to seaweed; but the water was always 

 so tempestuous in this bay that our 

 algae collections were not so abundant 

 here as elsewhere. We took long 

 drives to the mountains for ferns, once 

 going to Atalle Gap in the Blue Moun- 

 tains, a place famous for its coffee 

 plantation. The Blue Mountain coffee 

 is considered by epicures the best in 



