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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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PORTO RICO 65 rounded does tlie city itself become fully visible, for it is built on the landward side of the sandstone ridge which bounds the bay on the north. Elsewhere, for the most part, ships must lie in open road- steads; only at Guanica, Guayanilla, with the mainland; there are plazas and open spaces, but these seem only to accentuate the concentration of living quarters. As one travels about, the same feature becomes more prominent, for on the open plain, in a valley near
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In the limestone regions, hundreds of large and small caverns have been excavated by underground streams. This cave mouth near Gorozal is reached by a forty-foot climb up the face of the cliff. Once it is gained, the down- ward view is a striking and characteristic panorama of hill and field and stream and one or two other places is there anything that approaches a protected harbor like that of San Juan. At first view, the city is impressive by its extent, the close construction of its ancient and modern buildings, and by the delicate pastel shades of its tinted whitewashed walls. More than fifty thousand people are crowded in dense areas, on the narrow rock mass that extends eastward from El Morro for two and a half miles to its connection the coast, or in remote and unlikely hollows of the hills, one encounters town after town of more than ten thousand or fifteen thousand inhabitants. Natur- ally the problems of public health are of the highest importance, and of neces- sity they received the immediate atten- tion of the Americans when they came into control of Porto Rico in 1898. Old methods of water distribution by casks have been extensively replaced by a sys- tem which brings water through lines of

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