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which was of about the same color as that in Massachusetts. 
Fields of sugar cane bordered the road on both sides for 
most of the way but there were many beautiful trees scat¬ 
tered about the edges of the fields and road and we passed 
one piece of woods covering perhaps ten or twelve acres. 
On our left rose a mountainous ridge of no great elevation 
but very picturesque, its steep sides densely covered with 
a scrubby, thorny growth of various tropical shrubs with 
now and then a cover filled with larger trees. 
Mr. Hubbard pointed out to me the Ceiba, the 
feathery Tamarind (most beautiful of all the trees that I 
have thus far seen and a favorite shade tree both here and 
at St. Thomas),the Mango, the Talking Tree or Woman’s Tongue 
(covered witn yellowish pods and also much used as a shade 
tree), Mangroves and various others. There were cocoanut 
palms in abundance and the most varied and bewildering 
growth of shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants. Flowers 
were less numerous than I had expected but still we col¬ 
lected a very pretty bunch of them. 
Of birds I saw Euethia bicolor in the village; a 
Ground Dove and a pair of Tyrannus domixiicensi s on the out¬ 
skirts; several Zenaida Doves ( Zenaida castanea ?), three 
Anis ( Crotophaga ani ), two Co ereba newtoni ; and two Hummers 
(exactly like those noted at St. Thomas) in the country. 
