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PORTLAND. 
western districts of the south side of Jamaica with 
which I am familiar. I often heard it spoken of as 
inhabiting the mountain regions of Manchester, a 
district characterised by red earth and honeycombed 
limestone rock. Mr. Andrew G. Johnston, in a com- 
munication to Mr. Hill, describes the animal as pe- 
culiar to a similar region in Portland : — 
I have not heard ” he says, ‘‘ of its inhabiting 
hollow trees. It is taken generally from under rocks ; 
and that range of the John Crow Hills which furnishes 
the beasts in abundance, is broken limestone : high 
mountains on the north eastern side of the Rio Grande, 
from its source to Moore Town. The other range, 
which divides the valley of the Rio Grande from Blue 
Mountain Valley, has no limestone and no Conies. 
Both ranges are very lofty ; from 3000 to 4000 feet in 
height. They form a sort of wedge at the sources of 
the Rio Grande and Island River (which last flows to 
Bath), from which wedge probably this district of 
wilderness derives its name Cuna-Cuna. This is 
conjecture only. The two chains unite at the point 
of the wedge and form a saddle ; on the north rises 
Rio Grande ; on the south, Island River. The 
broken limestone is in a great measure honeycomb 
rock, though some of it is compact limestone. 
De la Beche has misunderstood the whole chain. I 
suppose he never explored it. The other chain he 
has well described: transition and trap, with immense 
masses of conglomerate boulders; — but no Conies; 
nor did I ever hear of one in the lowlands at all, 
neither in woods nor hedges.” 
Mr. Hill, in his correspondence with Mr. Johnston 
