A TRIP TO THE INAGUAS. 6/ 
Hill, is on the greater island, and has an elevation of one 
hundred and thirty-two feet. 
The country rock, to which allusion has been made above, is 
but little disturbed on the lower portions of the land, but on the 
sides of the hills and at their summits it is often broken up into 
irregular masses, varying much in shape and size. These irregu¬ 
lar masses abound with sharp points and jagged projections, mak¬ 
ing progress over them slow and tiresome. Many of these rock 
Fig. x8 . Salt Pond Hill, where the salina formation impinges upon it, 
showing honey-combed character of the rock. 
masses are tabular in shape and are nicely balanced on projecting 
points beneath. An incautious step on one of these might cause 
an ugly fall. These masses of rock resemble in brittleness and 
shape the large piles of slag which one often sees in the neighbor¬ 
hood of a blast furnace. Imagine an enormous pile of this, of a 
light grey color, with shrubs and small trees rising directly out 
of the chaotic mass, and you have a fair idea of the small hills 
of Inagua. 
