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on a slope, and much drier than the plateau forests. I have 
not been able to learn definitely of any other good forest in 
the North, although a little may still exist on other iso- 
lated ranges. The summit of Morne Salnave (NW. Haiti) 
is said to be covered with low, scrubby second growth 
(Bond). The conditions I found on Mt. Trou d’Eau (5,200 
ft.) are probably typical of most of the more accessible 
peaks: very dry, rather open woods on the lower slopes; 
pastures and gardens above, where the soil is better, right 
up to the summit, which was crowned by a corn field. 
South of the Cul de Sac, which forms a perfect barrier 
to mountain animals, the mountains are higher and wet- 
ter, and there are still large areas of forest. This is the 
case on the Massif de la Selle ( Division II .) , or at least on 
the plateau of the main range, where there are extensive 
pine woods as well as long strips of dense, low cloud forest. 
The cloud forest, under which the soil is black and rich, is 
being attacked by Negro farmers, who have pushed their 
gardens in places up to 7,000 ft., but it will probably be 
many years before it is all destroyed. The pine woods will 
probably last even longer, for the soil is poor, but unfor- 
tunately, at least on the western end of the range, which 
was all we saw, they have been marred by repeated burn- 
ing of the ground vegetation under the trees. Some of the 
outlying ridges, too, of this massif, have evidently sup- 
ported both pine and cloud forest in the past, but for the 
most part, as on Morne Tranchant above Kenskoff, the 
trees have all been cut and the mountain fauna persists, 
if at all, only in damp thickets and gullies. There is, how- 
ever, some good cloud forest left in the Crete a Piquant 
(western) section of the La Selle massif (Bond). 
West of the higher ranges of the Massif de la Selle, for 
perhaps 60 miles along the narrow middle part of the 
peninsula, lie a series of lower ridges without notable peaks. 
These, as can be seen from the road, are mostly either 
stripped or so dry as never to have been heavily forested. 
The latter is probably the case, for the ground life of the 
La Hotte mountain complex ( Division III.) at the outer 
end of the peninsula has evidently long been isolated from 
that of La Selle. First of the important western moun- 
tains is Bonnet Carre, between Aquin and L’Asile, a broad 
