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so fur as ray observation and information go at present ; these 
aro the Mora, Galba, Carapa or Carapo (vulgarised into Cra- 
poau in creole, and in other English Colonies into Crab- 
wood), Watereaire (from Guataquero), Eoble, Fiddle wood, 
(Bois Lezar), Poirier, Red- wood (Bois rouge, a wood of a 
deep crimson red, and said to be allied to Mahogany and 
our Red or common Cedar), and many others. But as I 
am not writing a paper on our woods at present, no more 
need bo said than that the wood of the mountains having 
grown on firmer, sometimes stony or rocky, yet a drier, 
better drained soil, in a cooler temperature, and been 
more buffetted by the winds, has a slower growth, and 
is heavier, tougher, sounder than the corresponding spe- 
cies in the low flat lands, and if it be a furniture Wood, 
as Cedar or Balsam, will be v closer, finer, wavier in the 
‘ grain’ or fibre, and much richer in the ‘feather’ or 
embranchment. 
On Maracas beach, at the extreme north-west end, j 
collected 14 species of bivalves, and 23 of univalves; 
among the former a fine Area Adamsii, and many A. 
squamosa, Cardita dactylus and Trigona mactroides. Among, 
the univalves were a good many good limpets (6 species), 
a small Crepidula, Columbella Isevigata, Bullia aciculata, 
and Oliva nitidula. 
The Las Cuevas estate is variously stated at 400 or 500 
quarrees (1,300 to 1,600 acres), and its cacao trees were 
formerly stated at 100,000; they are now roughly esti- 
mated at 60,000, for the estate has not long been taken 
over by the present proprietor, and is not reduced into 
thorough order. It had been for many years in a semi- 
abandoned state, the absentee owner being unable to 
lacet with a purchaser who would settle in a place so re* 
IC0 * e » and cut off from easy commuriication with the town ; 
