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Excerpt from The Caribbean Forester, 1949, Vol. 10 In the interior of Puerto Rico, between Caguas and Cayey, near Km. 48 on the military road, stands a forest of about 50 acres. It contrasts sharply with the bare hills of this intensively cultivated tobacco region. From.the road, this forest looks unusually tall, and its canopy is irregular in height and varied in color, giving the impression that it has not been disturbed for many years (see Fig. In the hope that it might be a relic of original vegetation the writer, together with D. B. Fanshaw, of the British Guiana Forest Department, took occasion to enter it. What found was difficult to believe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.