Identifier: geologicalreconn00vaug (find matches)
Title: A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican republic
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Vaughan, Thomas Wayland, 1870-1952 Cooke, Charles Wythe, 1887- Condit, Daniel Dale, 1886- Ross, Clyde Polhemus, 1891- Woodring, W. P. (Wendell Phillips), 1891-1983 Calkins, Frank Cathcart, 1878- Geological Survey (U.S.)
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Washington (Press of Gibson brothers, inc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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that district alone in one year. Bananas, plantains,yams, and yuca, the food of the poor people, are plentiful in every com-munity. The settled political conditions of the last few years have en-couraged cattle raising. The Province of Azua is famous throughout theRepublic for its excellent mules, and though these are small as comparedwith those raised in the United States, few of them being much over 14hands high, they are as hardy and on the whole better tempered. There isno wild game, the largest animal native to the island being no larger thanthe woodchuck of the United States. Pigs and goats abound in everysettlement, and wild pigs that have escaped from domestic stock roam inthe mountains. Many of the people are engaged in getting out mahogany, lignum-vitae,mora, dye woods, and other valuable timber for exportation, but theirefforts are confined largely to small timber of inferior grade, for there arealmost no roads over which the lumber can be carried to the sea for ship-ment.
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