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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION, 
ripo cove. Chaguaramas is tlie aboriginal and Spanish 
name of our queenly Palmisto or Cabbage tree, the 
Oreodoxa oleracea , JLTcirt. It may be noted bore that Ca- 
renage is only a modern misnomer as applied to the large 
valley now known by this name ; even the large and very 
shallow bay in front of its mouth, popularly called the 
Carenage, is no Carenage at all, and could not be. The 
true Carenage or Carenero was one of the wedge-shaped 
inlets of Point Gourde peninsula on the south side of the 
so-called Carenage or Carenage Pay. The old and proper 
name of the valley is Cu,esa, after the palm of that name, 
described as a species of Badris (having long black spines 
and a comparatively thin stem.) Nor is Point Gourde 
named, as popularly believed, after the sunken dollars of 
Apodaca’s squadron, but is a corruption of Punta Gorda, 
the big or broad Point, which describes it very appropri- 
ately, as any one who-has helped to pull a boat round the 
long gloomy promontory will acknowledge. 
Pour nautical miles beyond Macaripe occurs another de- 
pression in the chain of mountains, indicating a valley run- 
ning southward on the other side of the range which, for 
some distance, falls to less than half its usual height, and 
at the North Post, near its lowest point, is only 740 feet 
high ; a mile and a half or thereabouts to W, it had been 
1860 feet, and 3 nautical miles E. of the post it rises to 
2230 feet in the Saut d’Eau or Mai d’estomac mountains. 
The valley now alluded to is the Diego Martin, one of the 
finest valleys in the Island. The next valley to the east- 
ward, Maraval, was in the old Spanish time Mararaval, 
having been so called after a Palm tree, the Mararave, 
meaning the place of the Mararaves (as Cocal from Coco, 
the Coconut palm, Corozal from the Corozo palm, Palmal 
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