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The border between Crete and Cyprus is made of palms
palm land...it is gradually this lower level that
drains the palm lands and holds the water in the Ever-
glade.
When one gets to inspect the flora,
one is that Reg Layo and the rest of the Lago.
take on a new appearance. The mangroves anome
limited to the quiet sea margins and the salt
marshes. All the higher land is occupied by a
more or less rank jungle growth of shrubs and
innumerable vines among which the morning
glow is conspicuous.
(according to Agonizato 1740)
Reg Layo is distinctly higher than the
Crete and one soon begins to see the
elevated outcrops replete with large heads
of ceras (up to 2 feet across). The railroad has
quarries made of this for road bed.
From about Central Luffy, the railroad has
used great quantities of small dredged up from
the shallow areas around the lago. It is a light
grayish sticky mud that runs widely when
dumped from the tank-like iron cars. But
when once hardened will probably stand well.
As it works under the air one sees great
quantities of shells and smaller fossils (have