io8 CRUISE OF THE BARRERA 



shouted in the exuberance of health and high 

 spirits. So disreputable a looking lot of merry- 

 makers were no doubt eyed suspiciously by the few 

 natives about the landing sheds of Santa Lucia and 

 they probably felt relieved when we departed for 

 our ship a mile or more away. 



We had had a better opportunity upon this 

 Azucar trip to observe the geological features of 

 the country than had heretofore been presented to 

 us. The general features here are altogether the 

 same as evidenced in a cross-section about the 

 longitude of Vifiales. This consists, as heretofore 

 observed, of a central high range of precipitous 

 limestone sierras, with occasional detached out- 

 lying tnogotes, and flanked on both sides north 

 and south by a wide belt of less elevated rounded 

 hills of sandstone and shales. The strata in both 

 are usually tilted out of the horizontal, dipping 

 northerly on the north side and southerly on the 

 south, the high limestone sierras of the center 

 making what would appear to be an anticline along 

 its east and west axis. The even trend of the 

 lines is often distorted and partially obliterated, 

 and the continuity of the strata, as already noted, 

 interrupted by faults. The sierra limestone some- 



