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Chap. XVI.—15. P.] PIM’s BAY AND CAYS. 
its brethren in this part of the world, and its eastern 
side is very steep. It rises up to the clouds like a 
giant, and, there being no intermediate mountains to 
obscure its true proportions, it appears to stand out by 
itself in all its grandeur and magnitude. 
There are three cays off Monkey Point, and several 
others off the points nearer the Rama, studding the 
transparent sea with little emerald spots. The beaches, 
too, are composed of bright clean sand,—such a contrast 
to the black-looldng stuff at Greytown and its vicinity, 
—while in several places we saw clumps of cocoa-nuts, 
giving quite a picturesque appearance to the scene, 
which only needs the presence of man to become an 
earthly paradise. 
Passing all this, the coast-line once more became 
quite low; a hill, about five hundred feet high, at the 
back of Blewfields, being the only elevation worth 
speaking of ; it is called Aberdeen Ilill. 
Prom Monkey Point to the entrance of Blewfields 
Lagoon is only twenty-three miles; and, although the 
coast is low and uninteresting, yet it is fringed by 
some fairy-like cays, which disappear in the distance 
only too rapidly as the ship steams quickly past. 
There are six of these cays, all of different shapes and 
appearance :—Frenchman’s Cay, 90 feet high, 71 miles 
from Monkey Point; The Sisters, two lovely islets 9 
miles off, and scarcely a mile from the shore, but with 
treacherous breakers two miles outside them; then 
Pigeon Cays, 11 miles up the coast, the largest 110 
feet above the sea, with a white rock near it 50 
feet in height, with trees on its top; lastly, with its 
