. A year of Costa Rican natural history. ces where PanamaCanal Zone employees were permitted to spend their vaca-tions—, it was almost free from mosquitoes and malaria wasnot endemic. Cartago lies on the northern slope of the so-called Valley of Guarco, a slope which ascends northwardto become the great mass of the volcano of Irazu and south-ward descends gradually to the Rio Agua Caliente, a tribu-tary of the Rio Reventazon. On the south side of the AguaCaliente the hills rise much more abruptly. The railroadstation of Cartago is 4760 feet above sea-level, the Agua Ca-liente at the bath house

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. A year of Costa Rican natural history. ces where PanamaCanal Zone employees were permitted to spend their vaca-tions—, it was almost free from mosquitoes and malaria wasnot endemic. Cartago lies on the northern slope of the so-called Valley of Guarco, a slope which ascends northwardto become the great mass of the volcano of Irazu and south-ward descends gradually to the Rio Agua Caliente, a tribu-tary of the Rio Reventazon. On the south side of the AguaCaliente the hills rise much more abruptly. The railroadstation of Cartago is 4760 feet above sea-level, the Agua Ca-liente at the bath house, two and one-half miles away, is4460 feet, while Irazii rises to 11,300 feet. The town is laidout with great regularity, its streets running almost exactlynorth-south and east-west; many of the north and southstreets are continued northward as lanes and tracks whichform a maze over the lower slopes of Irazii running betweenthe stone walls that enclose the potreros or pastures. Tothe south of the town some of these streets become wide.

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