TUB TETA.S DE TOLU. 
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Saiitero, Tolu, Rincon, and Cliicliiinar. The two latter are 
nearest the coast. The Tetas do Tolu rise in the middle of 
the savannalis. There, from the trunks of^ the Toluilera 
halsainum, is collected the precious balsam of Tolu, hereto- 
fore so celebrated in the pharmacopoeias of Europe, and in 
which is a profitable article of trade at Corozal, Caimito. 
and the town of Toeasuan. In the savannahs (altas del 
Tolu), oxen and mules wander half wild. Several of those 
hills, between Cienega de Pesquero and the Punta del 
Coinissario, are linked two-and-two together, like basaltic 
Columns ; it is, however, very probable that the}' are cal- 
careous, like the Tetas de Manarjva, south ot the Ha\annali. 
In the archipelago of San Bernardo, we passed betwecii 
tho island of Salamanquilla and Cape Boqueron. AVe liad 
scfl.rcoly Quitted the of ]Moros<]uillo, Avlicii the seji 
became so rough, that the waves frequenlly rvashed over the 
deck of our little vessel. It was a fine moonlight night. 
Our captain sought in I'ain a shcltering-place on tho coast, 
to the north of the village ot Kincon. We cast anchor at 
four fathoms ; but having discovered that we were 1} uig 
over a reef of coral, we preferred the open sea. 
The coast has a singular configuration beyond the Morro 
de Tigna, the terminatory point of the group of little 
mountains which rise like islands from tho plain. VV e 
found at first a marshy soil, extending over a square of 
eight leagues, between the Bocas de Alatuna and JMatuniUa. 
These marshes are connected by tho t'ienega do la Criiz, 
with the Biqne of Mahates and the Bio Magdalcnm Ihe 
island of Barn, which, with the island of Ticrra Bomba, 
forms the vast port of Carthagena, is, properly speaking, 
but a peninsula fourteen miles long, separated irom the 
continent by the narrow channel of Pasaeaballos. I ho 
archipelago of San Bernardo is situated opposite Cape 
Poqueron. Another archipelago, called Bosario, lies oft 
the southern point of the peninsula of Barn. These rents 
in the coast are repeated at the lOI-'' and 1 1° of latitude. 
The peninsulas near the Ensenada ot Galera de /jiiinba, and 
near the port ot Savanilla, have the same aspect as the 
peninsula Barn. Similar causes have produced similar 
effects ; and the geologist must not neglect those analogies, 
in the coiifin'uration of a coast which, Irom Punta Caribana 
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