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“...and Domus
Balmoral, Morrisons, Grand Fond, and Southsea on
Monos.
The Maraval Reservoirs (4* miles from Port of Spain)
which together with the Diego Martin Waterworks, St.
Glair Pumping Station and the Cocorite Wells, furnish
the water supply of the City, are worth inspecting
They are scrupulously clean and, surrounded by graceful
bamboos, bright ««loured crotons, oleanders and ferns
present quite a picturesque appearance
Beyond the waterworks, the road ascends the valley
through the fertile Mocha Estate to The Saddle (La Sella)
the summit of the ridge separating the Maraval from the
Santa Cruz Valley. Here it passes through a narrow
defile or cutting, and then descends through rich and
well-watered cacao plantations to Santa Cruz, with its
many pleasant villas nestling among the trees and the
small hamlet of San Juan, below whidi it j£thTiS
road between St. Joseph and Port of Spain. The ride
or drive over the Saddle is justly regarded as one of the
most delightful of the shorter excisionsfroi...”
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“...Paris, lunch, drive to the)
Hermitage of Montserrate, the Yumuri Valley, and
admission to the Bellamar Caves. The lines pass j
through extensive fields of sugar-cane, the section
between Jaruco and Agucate being one of the most
productive in Cuba. At the latter place is the Rosario
Central Factory. Between Empalme (whence a branch
runs through a hilly country to Madruga, population
2,175), three hours from Havana, a typical Cuban j
village famous for its sulphur and iron springs, and j
Ceiba Mocha, is a deep cutting lined with maidenhair j...”
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“...L/UoA
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ferns and tropical foliage of great beauty. After passing
the unpretentious village of Ceiba Mocha (left) and
I ^tensive orange groves (right), the train runs through
the valley of the San Juan river, the great Pan of Matan-
zas (1,000 feet) being the most prominent feature.
Matanzas (population 36,000), the second city and sea-
port of Cuba, is situated on the south and east side of
a spacious harbour. Its streets are well laid out and
it has several handsome plazas adorned with decorative
trees and flowers. A feature of the town is a leafy
boulevard known as the Paseo. The valley of the Yu-
muri, which was praised by Humboldt, is best seen from
the Hermitage of Montserrate and from the summit of
the opposite hill, which is reached through a residential
quarter known as Versailles. The Yumuri Valley is a
vast natural amphitheatre five or six miles in diameter
with precipitous sides except towards the sea, where the
river finds an outlet through the vertical walls of a
canon....”
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“...INDEX
Catherine Hall, 287
Catherine’s Peak, 273
Cat Island, 59
Caura, 135
Causeway, the, Bermuda, 53,
54
Cauto River, 338
Cavalli, 117
Cavalries, 189
Cave, Hr. C. J. P., 107
Cave Hall Estate, 281
Cayman Brae, 295, 296
Cayman Islands, 232, 295-7
Books on, 15
Cedros, 142
Ceiba Mocha, 352-3
Centaur, H.M.S., 180, 313
f Central" sugar factories, 139
204, 321, 326
Cerro de Aripo, in
Cervera, Admiral, 340, 344,
355
Chacachacare, ni, 116, 117
Cha Cha dialect, n
village, 318
Chacon, Don Joséf, last Span-
ish Governor of Trinidad,
dad, 1x3, n8, 133, 138
Chagres River, 416, 423, 424,
431
Chaguanas, 115
Chaguaramas Bay, 113, 118,
r 127
Chaima Indians, 141
Chalky Mount, 93
Challenger, H.M.S., 40
Chamberlain Bridge, 77
Champ d’Arbaud, 301
Champion, Major, 186
Chancellor, Sir John, 124
Chapeau Carré, 152
Chapelton, 256
Charity, 374
Charles II, King, 201, 272
Charles V of Spain, 6, 407
Charlestown, 225, 226
Charlotte Amaha, 314, 316.
See St. Thomas
Charlotte Town. See Gouyave
Charlotteville, 149
473
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