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newer surveys shew a second Islet within the seaward one* 
and little shorter than it, I propose to retain or restore to 
the large.r and outer one the fine old Spanish name, pro- 
bably of Indian etymology, and baptise the landward one 
Saut d’l^iu. In the old surveys Maravaca was stated as 
'230 feet high • a naval authority, repeated by Captain 
Chimmo, raised it to 380 ; we were not near enough to it 
to allow of a satisfactory opinion being formed. It was 
certainly a tnuch more prominent object than its place and 
promise on the Chart led one to look for. 
The very distinct manner in, which the large valley of 
Careiiage is indicated to the voyager when abreast of it, 
off our northern coast, by the long slopes of the mountains 
on either side, yet gives no impression of an actual break 
in the chain ; nor is this to be observed in a southern ap- 
proach. It is not until one has turned sharply round the 
point of the overlapping ridge, probably a hundred feet 
high or more, that this curious feature, unique in our 
northern chain, is discovered. This overlap shelters a 
small cove in which coasting vessels may come to anchor 
in 8 to 3 fathoms. The beach is short, of soft sand and 
steep, terminated at either end by perpendicular cliffs, and 
backed abruptly by a precipitous face of semi-indurated 
yellowish argillaceous sand, about 50 or GO feet high. In 
going up tho valley from Carenage Bay to its head, one | 
is scarcely aware of a rise, so easy and gradual is the 
ascent, and without mounting over tho slightest dyke that j , 
could claim pretence for the term watershed, one finds 
oneself, on turning an angle, looking down from a small 
shrubby-faced precipice into a cove of the Caribean sea. 
So far from there being a watershed t even a foot back from 
the edge, evory drop of rain that falls Upon tho plateau 
runs or would run into the yalley ; would run, but that a 
