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ing from the sea, though having passed this part of ther 
1 Coast in the night, I cannot speak positively to the point ; 
looking over the range from the south, it is deeply notched 
between the head of the valley and the sea ; yet the range 
is continuous, and its points high, perhaps 1,500 or 1,600 
feet. At Piedra Blanca on the further side of the valley’s 
head, over which passes the bridle road to Maracas Bay, 
the peak is stated in a recent Admiralty Chart as 1,956 feet 
high. The coast north of Santa Cruz is La Yaca Bay, a 
curve of the shore protected to windward by a neck of high 
land of some size, but the shore being rocky and precipitous, 
and stretching to the west, a considerable surf continually 
breaks against it, and it has no value. I was informed by 
Mr. Michinaux, proprietor of the “ Prosperidad” Cacao 
Estate in Santa Cruz on the 1st February, on my return 
from Las Cuevas and Maracas Bay, of a curious and in- 
teresting fact, and one that may be usefully kept in mind 
in coasting about for good &nd easily approached localities 
for sanitaria, namely, that the ascent up the hills at the 
head of Santa Cruz is exceedingly gradual and easy to* 
walk (or drive, if a road was laid out to the top). 
La Yaca Bay takes its name from a rock of that name- 
off its windward point. It is now creolised generally into 
La Yache. Between it and Maracas Bay, which opens at 
2 nautical miles further west, is a fine bay net marked on 
the old charts or maps ; it is £ of a mile wide, and the 
same in depth, and widening a little within the heads; 
there is'fgood anchorage within in 6 to 8 fathoms water. 
Unfortunately, having no beach and no level land, it is 
nothing more than an anchorage. It is the first real bay 
met with since leaving the Bocas, Macaripe being but a 
cove, and Sant d’Eau and La Yaca being quite open to 
the north and west, not running into the land, but formed 
