. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. AGASSIZ: 117 of the shore line to the west may also have acted there to a less extent, but perhaps quite enough to have obliterated the lines of some of the terraces intermediate between those which at Caleta Point have been designated as one to five. From the Juragua mines one gets an excel- lent distant view of the shore limestone hills stretching to the west and east, and well separated from the inner range which forms a part of the mass of Gran Piedra. At Saboney, and at several places on the way from Sa
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. AGASSIZ: 117 of the shore line to the west may also have acted there to a less extent, but perhaps quite enough to have obliterated the lines of some of the terraces intermediate between those which at Caleta Point have been designated as one to five. From the Juragua mines one gets an excel- lent distant view of the shore limestone hills stretching to the west and east, and well separated from the inner range which forms a part of the mass of Gran Piedra. At Saboney, and at several places on the way from Santiago along the outside of the line of the railroad, small boat harbors have been formed on a diminutive scale by erosion, very similar to the larger ones so characteristic of the Cuban coast, and of which Guantanamo (Plate XIV. Fig. 5) and Santiago are the two finest examples on the southern coast. Many bights on the coast have been produced in a similar way. Neither at Santiago nor at Guan- tanamo do we find any trace of terraces along the sides of the eroded limestone hills which surround these harbors. They have been obliter- ated by the wash along their sides into the drainage basin fringing the bays. On our way east from Santiago we so timed our start as to see by daylight that part of the coast near Santiago which we had passed after dark. To the westward of the entrance of Santiago the terraces are most indistinct, the third terrace being alone fairly defined, while to the east- ward a fine line of terraces can be seen from the sea. We were able to get a distant view of the second and third terraces running along the hill slopes above the first terrace, forming the road-bed of the railroad leading from Santiago to Saboney. Through the gap at Saboney we could see the line of the Juragua mines on the foothills of the Gran. GRAN PIEDRA AND TERRACES NEAR SABONET. Piedra. To the eastward of the Saboney Gap, before reaching the pier of the Spanish American Mining Company, on
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