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This summer village is known only as "La Rancheria"

On June 14th we left Santo Domingo and went back into the mountains about 12 miles to the summer ranches of the people of Santo Domingo. The route led up the cañon  already mentioned & then up the open ridge of the mt. through open pine woods with a thin growth of grass- The lower part of the cañon is of limestone formation & the soil fertile enough so that there is a thick growth of bushes & low trees. The formation changes a mile or more above the mouth to gneiss and the soil at once becomes so barren that the scrubby pines, some still more scrubby oaks & the grass are all that it supports on the general surface. In cañons & places where loose soil accumulates heavy growths of trees & bushes occur. We ascended to the top of the ridge at 2600 ft. & then followed the winding courses of the hilltops for some miles until we came to the border of a long narrow valley in the mts. through which flows a creek- The sides of the mt. slopes about this valley are partly covered with the open pine woods like the tops of the ridges & partly grown up to a thick woods of various trees found in this altitude & belonging to the coffee zone. Descending through the scrubby pines we entered the village at the upper end of the valley at an alt. of 1400 ft. The houses are grouped closely in an irregular manner each one building as it pleased him on vacant ground so that there is no sign of a street. 

Transcription Notes:
gneiss - a type of rock