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Atore (continued)
flora, and is no doubt at or a bit higher than the
stage of the irregularities which seem to agree with those
from Koral unfortunate. On four inc. of narrow
ridges show at various levels - long exposed -
craving to basalt caps. Eastward of Patoot they
appear as prints to occupy the whole natural
from tide to cap.
Patoot
On facing from Atore towards Patoot the sedi-
mentary fort-hills slope with a regular concave curve
from the tops of spurs or, etc at Patoot are separated
by narrow sharp - V shaped ravines, where the name
Patoot, which seems to designate said ravine. These
ravines are extremely sharp with slopes of 45o in some
and dead abruptly. They affect but little the outline
of the massive front of the cap basalt, once the projecting
spurs between which they lie are compressed almost
entirely of sedimentary generally with at times irregular tim-
ses of basalt running out on it. From the foot of these
spurs (or rather of the ravines) in the vicinity the land is
detrital and slopes to a plain, hardly ravined, but
traversed by numerous slight water courses, gradually
to the sea level, thus result in a peculiar thorough