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Vegetation, except for the groves of trees.* is uniformly low swad rarely 
reaching knee high. At the south end of the island six small groves of Gordin 
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and one ring* shaped grove of T ourne fortia stand out from the gpfna w- b are coral 
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one mile north of the lighthou i^ab^ut ICG acres of Toumefortia trees 
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