. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 402 MEXICO, CEXTEAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES collects all its headstream? a short distance above San Domingo, capital of the Spanish republic. Its tributary, the Rio Brajuelas ("Witch River"), appears to be one of the few underground streams in the island. After flowing on the surface to within 12 miles of the coast, it suddenly plunges into a chasm, its course being here arrested by a long cliff skirting the limestone shore. The scattered over the plain are formed by the rainwater which collects in these little closed basins. The who
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 402 MEXICO, CEXTEAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES collects all its headstream? a short distance above San Domingo, capital of the Spanish republic. Its tributary, the Rio Brajuelas ("Witch River"), appears to be one of the few underground streams in the island. After flowing on the surface to within 12 miles of the coast, it suddenly plunges into a chasm, its course being here arrested by a long cliff skirting the limestone shore. The scattered over the plain are formed by the rainwater which collects in these little closed basins. The whole region stretching east of the capital to the extremity of the island appears to have been formerly under water. But elsewhere the only lacustrine basins still surviving are those of the depression which extends north of the Selle and Baburuco chains, between Port-au-Prince and Neyba Bays. So level is this plain, which was formerly a Fig. 192 —Isthmus of the Lakes, San Domingo. Scile 1 : "F^hnrViU. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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