. La terre et ses habitants ... La géographie. Chapitre X. PUERTO EICO.. UERTO RICO Borinquen^, des Indiens arawaks, classe de taille moyenne seulement comme la quatrième des Grandes Antilles, mais prend la première place pour la densité de la population et de la prospérité générale. Physiquement, c'est un prolongement de la ligne de l'est de bouleversements indiqué par la Jamaïque et la côte méridionale de San Domingo. Dans les grandes lignes il présente l'apparence d'un presque géométriquement réguliers parallélogramme, presque trois fois plus long que large, avec ses quatre côtés tournés vers les quatre points cardinaux, mais avec une légère est de convergenc

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. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. CHAPTER X. PUERTO EICO.. UERTO RICO, tlie Borinquen of the Arawak Indians, ranks in size only as the fourth of the Great Antilles, but takes the first place for density of population and general prosperity. Physically it forms an eastern continuation of the line of upheaval indicated by Jamaica and the southern seaboard of San Domingo. In outline it presents the appearance of an almost geometrically regular parallelogram, nearly three times longer than broad, with its four sides facing the four cardinal points, but with a slight eastern convergence of the northern and southern coasts. Both of these are indented like the edge of a saw, and towards the south-west the coastlands, rising little above sea-level, are strewn with swampy tracts. Even the islands and islets scattered along the east side seem to form a half- upraised prolongation of the geometrical insular mass. Such are Vieques, or " Crab " Island, disposed in a line with the main southern ridge, and La Culebra, standing like a cornerstone of a future structure, continuing the north side east- wards. Mona Island, also, off the west coast in. the passage separating Puerto Rico from San Domingo, stands on the same submarine bank as the large island of which it is a political dependency. Thus the parting-line between the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea is continued west and east of Puerto Rico in such a way as to connect this island on the one side with San Domingo, on the other with the Virgin Islands. But northwards and southwards the submarine slopes fall regularly to depths of from 1, 000 to 2, 000 fathoms, and on the side of the ocean even to over 5 miles. Physical Features. In general elevation Puerto Rico is far inferior to the other Great Antilles. It is even rivalled in height by some of the peaks in the Lesser Antilles. Its uplands are disposed in masses and ridges which present no clear arrangement in their general disposition. Theculrainating-poi

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