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the same extensive groves ; nor of the mangroves 
and morass-withes that are dependent on the presence 
of water. But one cannot help noticing the Sea-side 
Grape {Coccoloha uvifera) with its round, leathery, 
crimson-veined leaves, and its hunches of red acid 
berries, that fringes the sea-beach in many places ; 
not so much in groups or clumps, however, as forming 
a narrow belt or range of single trees, as close as they 
can conveniently grow together, along the line of 
high-water mark. Other species might be enumerated 
as having the same gregarious character, in the in- 
terior, as the Jointwood (a species of Piper) that 
thickly and exclusively covers large tracts on the 
summits of Bluefields Ridge. I shall however men- 
tion but one more, the Logwood {Hcematoxylon Cam- 
pecliianum)i originally introduced from the Spanish 
Main, but which now covers immense districts of the 
western portion of the island, and is fast extending 
its dominion on every hand, maintaining a too suc- 
cessful struggle with the feeble agriculture that cha- 
racterizes the Antilles. The likeness of this tree to 
the Hawthorn of Europe is very striking, and has 
been noticed by many. Either growing singly, or in 
clumps, the resemblance is so exact that at a very 
little distance the stranger, if not corrected by his 
reason, would infallibly mistake it for that familiar 
tree. For hedges, it is equally adapted, and is much 
used ; and in this form the similitude to the thorn is 
still perfect. I have admired scenes, such for exam- 
ple, as on the estate called Paradise, near Savanna- 
le-Mar, where, from the absence of characteristic 
tropical features, from the broad open fields, divided 
