. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history -- New York (State); Natural history. 220 cipitous front, heaves its back against the horizon, like a giant wave ready to break npon the level j)lains of Erere, that lie spread out before us, 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 white church and scattered, thatched houses. In the west are the tops of Aroxi and Aracuri, with low lands beyond on the horizon, whil
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history -- New York (State); Natural history. 220 cipitous front, heaves its back against the horizon, like a giant wave ready to break npon the level j)lains of Erere, that lie spread out before us, 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 white 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 Tauajurl. And away beyond them, on the far-oif northern horizon, are table-topped hills, evidentlyof 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 the distant table-topped hills, I have introduced the following little outline sketch taken without alteration from my Sketch looking Northward from Serra of Erere. 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 dij? 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 difficult to study it. After running along for a con- siderable distance, it breaks down abruptly, or perhaps more prop- erly speaking,
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