The ea 
half of the valley is covered in part with a very deep black 
ley, lignum vite (Guayacan) abounds, and logwood (Campeachy) 4 
frequents the moist bottom. Throughout the Cactus and Acacia — 
ts, grass grows sparsely. : 
The mountains approach the coast, west of Santo Doming® — 
city, leaving small sinine only, until near the great bay of Oco® 
Kast of this broad spur is a strip of plains nearly thirty miles — 
wide extending to the eastern end of the island. The underly: | 
than at present. This stream runs rough a region of h 
rocks; and its débris, now spread over the country like a fan, 
