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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita291recl (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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FLOEA AND FAUNA OF CUBA. 3G5 Floka, Fauna. Cuba, the " Pcaii of the Antilles," is indebted for this title especially to the wealth and variety of its flora, in which are represented nearly all the forms occurring elsewhere in the "West Indies and along the Central American seaboard from the peninsula of Florida to the Oienoco delta. All the large trees of the Mexican coast, so remarkable for their majestic growth, for the beauty of their foliage, the splendour and fragrance of their flowers, reappear on the Cuban seaboard. Over 30 species of palms are hei'e met in association with trees such as the pine, which would seem so characteristic of the temperate zone, and Fio'. 173.—Plantation of Pineapples.
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which gives its name to the " Pinos " Island, where it is found intermingled "with palms and mahogany. The catalogue of 1876 enumerates altogether 3,350 indige- nous flowering plants, besides those introduced by Europeans. But many of the native forms have already disappeared, and the forests are now largely replaced by plants of low growth, such as the dwarf ian-ipalm. (chamcerops), scrub, plantations of pineapples, and other prickly plants. Before the discovery the only mammals in Cuba were bats and a few species of rodents, such as the guaquinaji, which was probably a racoon (proci/on lotor). The manatee, still seen in the Jardinillos cays, was very common on the coast, as shown by the nimes of numerous gulfs, bays and beaches. The guaquinaji

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