The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 PHYSICAL FEATUEES OF CUBA. 857 Cuba, however, is exceeded in altitude and general relief by San Domingo. The only well-defined mountain range is the Sierra Maestra, which rises abruptly above the water's edge on the south-east coast over against Jamaica. The range begins at the sharp headland of Cape Cruz, and rises rapidly through a series of terraces to a height of 3,300 feet in the Ojo del Toro crest. Farther on the chain culminates in a summit usually called the Pico de Tarquino, perhaps a co
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 PHYSICAL FEATUEES OF CUBA. 857 Cuba, however, is exceeded in altitude and general relief by San Domingo. The only well-defined mountain range is the Sierra Maestra, which rises abruptly above the water's edge on the south-east coast over against Jamaica. The range begins at the sharp headland of Cape Cruz, and rises rapidly through a series of terraces to a height of 3,300 feet in the Ojo del Toro crest. Farther on the chain culminates in a summit usually called the Pico de Tarquino, perhaps a corruption of Pico Turquino, or ' Blue Peak,' which is variously estimated at from 6,900 to Fig. 169.—Easteen Division of Cuba. Scale 1 : 6,000,000. 0 to 500 Fathoms. Depths SO-t to 1,000 Fathoms. 2,000 Fathoms and upwards. 124 Miles. 8,400 feet. Here the mountains, falling precipitously seawards, merge inland in a broad plateau, whose furrowed slopes incline towards the Rio Cauto valley. But farther on the chief range, here called the Sierra del Cobre ('Copper Mountains'), is gradually contracted, and after developing an amphitheatre of low hills round the city of Santiago, dies out on the marshy banks of the Rio Gfuantanarao. One of the peaks in the Sierra del Cobre takes the name of La Gran Piedra (5,200 feet) from a huge block of conglomerate poised on the summit. The main formation of the Sierra Maestra consists of diorites and porphyries underlying tertiary rocks,
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