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About the three small maps at the end of this 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...”
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“... isolated moun-
tain and is surmounted by a caleareous table-land.
The diabase hilly complex, extending over a territory, bordered
by lines from Matavidiri to Belashi, from there to Boca Prins
and then along the North coast to Matavidiri, has a number of
high tops, among them Ariekok 175 M. and Jananota 188 M.
From these tops the country slowly descends to the South and
West and the whole landscape is dominated by cup-shaped hills,
separated by gently sloping valleys; in some places we find per-
pendicular walls. On the North coast we meet in a few places
the same limestone terraces which exist on the West coast of
Curagao.
Bonaire.
The West point of the island lies at ± 68° 12' W. Long, and
12° 14' N. Lat., the most Southern point at ± 68° 24' W. Long,
and 12° 13' N. Lat. The greatest length of the island is 36 kilo-
metres, its surface about 240 square kilometres. It consists of
a quaternary limestone formation, pierced in two places by moun-
tainous complexes of cretaceous...”
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