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to their high elevation (1,200 feet) along their interior border 

 and the fact that they are a part of the general mountain uplift. 

 Along their inner border these are of remarkable pointed charac- 

 ter, known in Jamaica as " cock-pits " (" Farallones " in Spanish 

 nomenclature), and are appropriately termed by the natives 

 " Pepinos " or cucumbers. These are numerous sharp-pointed 



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A SUMMIT IN THE SIERRA LUQUILLO 



conical or flattened limestone hills, the remnants of a dissected 

 cuesta or sloping plateau. When viewed from the mountains 

 above they look like thousands of large white Sibley tents below. 

 The interior hills of this group, which are most pointed, l'ise to 

 1,200 feet above sea-level, although they stand on]}' 300 to 500 



