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“...Flora need only
be said that the finding-places are given as exactly as possible;
it seemed only necessary to indicate the border of the calcareous
territories. The different abbreviations are explained in the exten-
sive list of the sites.
While for more detailed information 1 refer to the work by
K. Martin: Bericht fiber eine Reise nach Niederlandisch West
Indien 1887 and 1888, from which the greater part of what fol-
lows has been derived, a short account many here suffice.
Curagao.
Of the terminal points of Curagao Westpunt lies at 69° 11' W.
Long, and 12° 23' N. Lat. and Punt Canon at 68° 49' W. Long,
and 12° 3' N. Lat.; the greatest length of the island is 58 kilo-
metres, its surface + 450 square kilometres.
The long-drawn island is a hilly country, the hills consisting of
diabase or being of cretaceous origin, the whole being surrounded
by a layer of a coral-limestone formation. On the narrower
part of the island the nothern and southern coral-limestone
masses join and reach there...”
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