. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 398 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. Chico, and on the south by a chain of lakes ; lastly, the fourth segment is formed by the south-western peninsula and the mountains in which it is rooted. The northern chain itself consists of two distinct groups very unequal in size. The Samana peninsula at its eastern extremity, even Avithin quite recent times formed a separate island, and at the beginning of the present century a branch of the Yuna known as the Gran Estero ("Great Inlet") still communicated east of the peninsula with Escocesa
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 398 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. Chico, and on the south by a chain of lakes ; lastly, the fourth segment is formed by the south-western peninsula and the mountains in which it is rooted. The northern chain itself consists of two distinct groups very unequal in size. The Samana peninsula at its eastern extremity, even Avithin quite recent times formed a separate island, and at the beginning of the present century a branch of the Yuna known as the Gran Estero ("Great Inlet") still communicated east of the peninsula with Escocesa Bay. The bed of the sound, although now completely silted up, might easily be restored and transformed to a navigable canal. Nevertheless, the northern range of San Domingo begins in the Samana penin- sula in the abrupt Pilon de Azucar (" Sugarloaf "), about 2,000 i:eet high, and the Fig- 189.âMonte-Ceisti Range and Vega Plain. 1 : l,'250, ^1° West or ureenwich ''â ^-^irv:./"^, e\:-^..-s"MVV-.,';:> 70° 18 Miles. neighbouring Monte Diablo rises somewhat higher. Farther west the uplands develop a coast-range running west-north-west for about 136 miles entirely within San Domingan territory. This range, which takes the name of Monte Cristi from the bluff at its western extremity, gradually contracts westward, but increases in altitude from 1,200 or 1,300 feet to its culminating point, the Diego Campo, 4,000 feet. Farther on the range again falls, and its last crest, the Sella de Caballo, or " Horse-saddle " (3,900 feet), terminates in the table-shaped Monte Cristi, so named by Columbus, which rises sheer above the sea to a height of 790 feet. The whole ^system has its steeper escarpments facing southwards, while its longer slopes terminate on the north or Atlantic side in limestone cliffs with fringing. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - co
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