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with the bottom composed of endless hills and steep valleys, all densely forested except where bananas have been planted. There are numerous valleys that appear to be undrained, though this particular area is drained by the Montego River and tributaries.[[margin]] [[in pen]] G J [[/pen]] [[in pencil]] G J [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] This is part of the great limestone plateau. It has something the appearance of a completely  dissected peneplain. All the higher hills are of about the same height, while all slopes are steep and all valleys narrow. I saw only the variously colored limestone series, some quite white, others very red or more or less stained. Some is rather crystalline and hard but most of the road cuts show badly-weathered rock. .[[margin]] [[in pen]] c [[/pen]] [[in pencil]] C [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] This region gets over 100 inches of rainfall, and even now in the dry season is very damp. Except where directly exposed this ground never dries. There seems to be little run-off. Some gutters and culverts have been provided but I could see little effect, for instance, of a normally heavy thundershower [[margin]] [[in pen]] J [[/pen]] [[in pencil]] J [[/pencil]] [[/margin]] of yesterday afternoon. This region is on the edge of the Cockpit Country and is fairly densely inhabited. Bananas
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are abundant, while the chief occupation is breaking rock for road surfacing. This is done more often by the women, sitting under rude shelters of palm leaves, with the ever-ready limestone as an inexhaustible raw-material. [[left margin, underlined]] Photo #15 [[/left margin, /underline]] 
Search under rotting fragments of mangoes in the road yielded nothing.
[[underline]] Station 16. [[/underline]]
Midway between Mocho and Catadupa in southern St. James parish. A mountain road in dense forest.
[[margin]] [[in pen]] I [[/pen]] [[in pencil]] I [[/pencil]] [[in pen]] A [[/pen]] [[/margin]] Under burro dung in the road found only one small Staph and one large black Scarab. 
[[left margin]] B [[/left margin]] Tried sweeping along the road with some success, but beating the taller bushes and trees was much more productive. This included many [[insertion, in pencil]] (8) [[/insertion]] Staphs (Paederinae chiefly), weevils, Chrysomelids, one Lampyrid, Coccinellids, and several kinds of small beetles. Several unusual types of hoppers were present, but ants were not common. This place is fairly well isolated from habitations and I've marked it for a return tonight at dusk for light work. One large gray beetle (Scarab?) buzzed about as I was emptying my aspirator. The net was not handy, so he got away!