able timber, af toFTO r I ' ln^r-tha cId 
-usnlnsiL. ep Q c loon e of any specief, there- ~orc on on overage not'- 
cv.ov~$4&& r ~&v -e t -«eet - six Tr'odS tc'th'o cere, that on experienced 
woodsman who knows tropical timber and forests, would ...include in 
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his estimate. iftor excluding the largo trees of such kinds that 
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do not yield salable wood, like the light, spongy crepo, the num¬ 
ber of trees largo enough and suitable for saw logs are on an 
average surprisingly low' considering the general density of the 
forest growth, 
^vo ff Practically the entire arcs in covered with an unbroken 
forest which may be classified 5 roughly into lowland and into up¬ 
land types of forest; 
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the upper slopes and on the^rfdges of V&& highest hills. The 
numerous low elevations tjhcler 500 fe^fc' have a forest growth that 
does not materially ^differ from that in the lowlands. .Above the 
five hundred fop^iina the forest vegetation grades into a soma- 
what more ©£on type in.A*hioh the percentage of species different, 
from that £n the lowland. 
Lowland gypd~ 
The lowland type of forest occupies approximately 
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percent of the area of the tract. The term "lowland" does not im¬ 
ply that the land is permanently wet, though dpring the season of 
greatest rainfall the part along the streams 3rs=e often flooded^vi^ 
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■wfers the soil become Iheiiwaghly saturated. AyS &l lo the bulk->-o4---the < 
water flows back into the stropins, as they _hecome lower, much of 
the., water passes through tk& top layer ay sand and loary into the 
substratum of gravel leaving the surfehe layer exceedingly dry and 
hard during the summer season, when 'thoah^sre no rains. The soil 
bakes very hard and numerous e^ep fissures ar^scaased by the excos 
sive drying out of the soil. Tho\vegetation consdvuently assumes 
