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Some coffee grown in neighborhood. 
It lies at the foot of tlie last (southward) high land of the 
Bahoruca Mts. u'oast is low south of this. 
LOS PilAS, a small village on shore three miles southwest of 
Paradis. A large spring flows out from foot of cliff a few hundred 
yards inland. A large cave exists about 100 feet up the rocks above 
the spring. Cave contains much guano and numbers of bats. l!ay have 
been inhabited by Indians. i/Ught repay exploration - a good light 
required. 
POLO - a settlement in the Bahoruca Mountains about 15-16 miles 
from 6ahral 6-l/4 hours west pack mules. Coffee grows very well - 
also vegetables for Cabral and Barahona market. It lies about 2000 ft. 
and over. Maybe 600-800 people in settlement. As country is limestone, 
nearly all streams flow underground and only one good stream near tov/n. 
Another larger is 2-l/2 3. on the road to lianiel Vieho and Petit Prou. 
The settlement lies at edge of a flat bottomed valley, evidently an 
old lake bed. 
The whole valley ( one mile across) drains (imdergi'ound) through 
a narrow gorge into the river. hoad dov/n this gorge (to Paradis) im- 
passable since the hurricane of 1908. 
LOJik deCI^LO - lies 2-2 l/2 miles E. of Polo. Two sxunmits 
4000 to 4200 ft. high. Covered v/ith ”v/et forest" on summit. Clearings to 
over 3000 ft. S.E. face is steep and precipitous. 
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