. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 220 cipitous front, heaves its back against the horizon, like a giant wave ready to break upon the level plains of Erere, that lie spread out before ns, flecked with open, bright, grassy campos, dark woodland, and coursing cloud-shadows from the glorious sky above. Below us, and beyond a little strip of woodland, is the little village of Erere, with its wdiite church and scattered, thatched houses. In the west are the tops of Aroxi and Aracuri, with low lands beyond on the horizon, while, northward from the hills,
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 220 cipitous front, heaves its back against the horizon, like a giant wave ready to break upon the level plains of Erere, that lie spread out before ns, flecked with open, bright, grassy campos, dark woodland, and coursing cloud-shadows from the glorious sky above. Below us, and beyond a little strip of woodland, is the little village of Erere, with its wdiite church and scattered, thatched houses. In the west are the tops of Aroxi and Aracuri, with low lands beyond on the horizon, while, northward from the hills, stretches a belt of low, wooded ridges, skirting the campos on the west and north, and bending round to close the circuit with Tauajuri. And away beyond them, on the fiir-off northern horizon, are table-topped hills, evidently of the same formation as the serras of Parii. To give a clearer idea of the topographical features of the highlands west of the campos and of tlie distant table-topped hills, I have introduced the following little outline sketch taken without alteration from my Sketch looking Northward from Serra of Erer6. A mile or more west of the village, a very narrow, angular ridge extends northward from the northern side of the serra of Erere, in a straight line for perhaps a mile, presenting a very even height of about 200 feet, as nearly as I could judge. On the eastern side this ridge is very steep, and near the top there is a line of exposures of a rather compact, not well laminated clay-rock, mottled red and white, and apparently without fossils. This has a decided dip to the westward, and the western slope of the ridge is consequently less steep than the eastern. The ridge is unfortunately covered with small trees, abominable "Devil's fish-hooks" and cactuses, so that it is very difiicult to study it. After running along for a con- siderable distance, it breaks down abruptly, or perhaps more prop- erly speaking, it is cut through by a br
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