. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. no BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. tude to which true coral reef rocks could be traced. His Report will be printed in the Museum Bulletin, and I shall refer to this paper for such illustration as will supplement the observations of Professor Hill.^ Cape Maysi to Santiago de Cuba. Plate I.; Plate XIV. Fig. 5 ; Plate XL,VII. From the westward of Cape Maysi to Caleta Point there are four very distinct terraces, and signs of a fifth, the summit of the hill forming Caleta Point being probably nearly twelve hundre
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. no BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. tude to which true coral reef rocks could be traced. His Report will be printed in the Museum Bulletin, and I shall refer to this paper for such illustration as will supplement the observations of Professor Hill.^ Cape Maysi to Santiago de Cuba. Plate I.; Plate XIV. Fig. 5 ; Plate XL,VII. From the westward of Cape Maysi to Caleta Point there are four very distinct terraces, and signs of a fifth, the summit of the hill forming Caleta Point being probably nearly twelve hundred feet in height. The accompanying slietch will give better than any description of mine an idea of the appearance of the shore as seen from the yacht's deck. As. TERRACES AT CALETA POINT. we go westwai'd these terraces become more and more indistinct. They are no longer continuous, as we saw them for a long stretch to the eastward of Caleta Point. There has been great erosive action, and many valleys have been cut from the shore through the lime- stone hills back tcJ the older formations upon which the shore hills rest. During the erosion, the hills parallel to the coast line have been cut into disconnected patches, and often reduced to a height less than thfCt of the second or third terrace on the shore line near Caleta Point. In the process the lines of the terraces have also frequently been obliterated, so that it is impossible to detect their continuity. Here and there iso- lated remnants, generally of the third terrace judging from their com- parative altitude, can be traced at intervals all along the shore line to Santiago de Cuba. The first terrace formed by the line of the elevated shore reef is most persistent; it can often be traced for miles where the * A preliminary note on the Geology of Cuba, by Professor R. T. Hill, will- be found in the September number of the American Journal of Science, 1894, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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