Plain

Who really knows? But you're going to play Auburn.

You're going to the Plains.

You're going to Jordan-Hare.

A lot of awful stuff has happened to Florida and Jordan Hare.

He does a terrific job covering the world of college football, and he's with us here on 1010XL.

All right, the Gators also are heading to the state of Alabama.

They're heading to the Plains to take on Auburn Saturday night.

You can hear that game right here on 1010XL in Jacksonville.

When the years have shown what is false or true, beauty maddens the sight like wine, you will understand how I cared for you, first and only lover of mine.

The Plains.

How one loves them, these wide horizons, whether desert or sea, vague and vast and infinite, faintly clear! Surely hid in the far-away unknown there Lie the things so longed for and found not, found not here.

Only where some passionate level land stretches itself in reaches of golden sand.

There isn't one single version of her story, which is important to remember whenever we're discussing indigenous oral traditions.

The Deer Woman is most commonly associated with indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and the Central Plains of Oklahoma, although versions of her appear in the traditions of many different tribes.

She is typically described as appearing as this beautiful young woman whose true nature isn't immediately obvious.

At first glance, she looks completely human, but if someone pays close attention, they'll notice animal features that reveal her identity.

She also taught cultural values through storytelling.

The role of the Deer Woman changes significantly from one indigenous nation to another, reflecting the values and teachings of each community.

In some Plains traditions, particularly among the Lakota, the Deer Woman is viewed as an entirely dangerous supernatural being.

In Cherokee and some other Eastern traditions, however, she is a more morally complex figure.

month or two before the appointed day a committee chosen for that purpose announces the subjects upon which poems may be written the contest is open to any one in the island the poems to be written in spanish in nineteen o one the three topics selected were country woman and love the successful rhymes are printed in all the papers and are read aloud on the festal day and to their writers prizes are given to the writer of the finest poem of all is presented a natural rose the lady upon whom he bestows this rose becomes queen of the feast she sits upon a flowery throne from which she distributes all other prizes her commands are implicitly obeyed and she is for one day a genuine queen of the flowers the prize awarded for the second best poem is a rose of gold the third in rank is rewarded with a rose of silver the flower feast is the most charming occasion of the st john carnival even though it may lack the boisterousness of the midsummer day's revels st peter's day and carnival bring their own festivities dressed in grotesque fashion people go from house to house filling the air with a music of a more or less absurd character masked balls are given ridicule of everybody and everything is regarded as allowable the man who plays the fool and is the best clown is most in demand at these festival times the negroes are very boisterous in their antics they romp and caper and contort their bodies into all sorts of shapes the cake walk is a mild performance compared with the pranks of these people their gaiety lasts for several days and ceases only when the participants have exhausted all new forms of amusement and are completely tired out the people of porto rico are especially partial to the drama and every town has its theatre sunday is the great holiday after the morning service is over the rest of the day is given to amusement and all kinds of pastimes are indulged in vigorous sports and games such as football and baseball which the boys of the united states are accustomed to play were formerly unknown in puerto rico since the american occupation however these games have become very popular with the islanders in spite of the warm enervating climate in heat such that no american boy would think he could do anything requiring more active exercise than playing knife a group of puerto rican youth may nowadays often be seen wholly engrossed in a game of baseball it speaks well for the future of the island that her young men are so deeply interested in this invigorating form of athletics like the youth of other countries they are much in need of such sports to aid in better physical development the children of the island have few games when at play they skip aimlessly about with no apparent plan few of them have heard of such common games as leap frog and hide and seek many of the children of the poorer classes have hardly even seen a doll the simple materials supplied by the united states government in connection with school work such as pencils rulers and blackboard crayons have for these little folks very great attraction that learning to write should be a pleasure because of the novelty of marking with a lead pencil is something that the child of the united states who has played with a pencil and paper ever since he can remember is hardly able to comprehend CHAPTER V.

MOUNTAINS, PLAINS, AND CAVES The mountains with which we are most familiar are elevations of soil or rock upon the land, where they serve numerous uses to mankind.

they mark boundaries between countries they influence climate they cause rainfall among them rivers rise and out of them metals are brought we measure their height in feet above the sea level there are lofty mountains beneath the surface of the sea also they may be single peaks or mountain ranges and often between them are deep valleys the islands forming the west indies are the fertile uplands of a long mountain range rising from the depths of the ocean some of the submarine mountains are higher than any mountains we have upon the land the average elevation of the himalayas is about eighteen thousand feet the highest single mountain in europe mont blanc is fifteen thousand seven hundred and eighty two feet while some of the mountains forming the west indies are twenty seven thousand feet from submarine base to summit asia is the only continent with mountain peaks that can surpass them mount everest towering to the magnificent height of twenty nine thousand feet eclipses the mountains of the tropical west indies hidden as their bases are twenty five thousand feet beneath the surface of the ocean a little to the north of porto rico lies a vast ocean valley it is known as bronson's deep and until recently was supposed to be the lowest point on the earth's surface soundings have been made to a depth of more than five miles in other words if a giant could take pike's peak from colorado and throw it into bronson's deep there would still be room for mount washington and several smaller hills on top what stately mountain peaks must lie below the blue surface of the atlantic along the course of the submarine ranges what alpine steeps what precipices and natural walls the wonders of mountain scenery below the surface of the sea recall to our minds the question of the almighty hast thou entered into the springs of the sea or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep compared with the great mountain called porto rico the mountains on the island itself which are really the very tallest peaks of the large ocean mountain seem small several of them are actually however of considerable height el yunque is three thousand six hundred and nine feet above sea-level these mountains are made up of volcanic rock and are surrounded by a narrow belt of limestone hills from a distance they resemble in appearance the green mountains of vermont although they are not so high mount mansfield the highest peak of the green mountains is a thousand feet higher than el the long mountain range extending across the island is called a cordillera a name which is given to any continuous and unbroken range the main chain of peaks extends from mayaguez on the west through the upland regions of adjuntas to aybonito the highest town on the military road from ibonito westward the range is called the central cordillera east of ibonito the sierra de calle near the middle of the island a second range branches off the main cordillera and running in a southeasterly direction forms two mountain chains in the eastern portion of the island the northern extension of this range the sierra luquillo extends from aybonito to the northeast coast of the island other mountains worthy of note are el asomanta near aybonito cerro de guilarte and las sillas de calderon near adjuntas las tetas de cerro gordo in san german and cerro montuoso near mayaguez on the north coast is a series of hills called by the islanders pepinos or cucumbers they rise to a height of about twelve hundred feet they are sharp and in some cases flattened at the summit and thus they bear a fanciful resemblance to cucumbers porto rico is so small an island that the rivers rising high up in the mountains flow to the sea swiftly and with great force as they rush down they carry with them soil from the mountain sides this soil is left near the coast as fan-shaped deposits called playa plains the handle of the fan extends towards the mountains the broad open portion towards the sea these playa or coast plains stand only a few feet above ocean level several of the porto rican cities are built on the inner border of the playa plains similar land formations are found in texas arizona and new mexico in these sections they are produced by evaporation in the broad level plains where water has collected after severe rains ponce is situated on one of the most noted playa plains its port being known as the playa of ponce at first sight these plains look like deserts the limestone surface extending in long unbroken tracts in striking contrast to the luxuriant hills beyond between the foot-hills and the central ranges of mountains are parting valleys as the rivers make their way from the interior they wear away broad channels and form these long valleys indian corn is grown with great success in the valley soil the lagoon of guanica is in one of the parting valleys it lies between the cerros and the hills which separate it from the sea mr r t hill of the united states geological survey who has made a thorough study of the physical features of porto rico finds no signs of recent volcanic action he says that there are no craters and that no belt of lava is exposed to view still as the mountains are made up of volcanic rock and show signs of volcanic upheavals there must have been active volcanoes on the island some time in the past once upon a time long ages ago the scientists think the land in the vicinity of the caribbean sea was much higher than it is to-day it is believed that all the way from florida to the mainland of south america there was a solid body of land probably there was no isthmus of panama in those days but the waters of the pacific ocean washed the western side of this connecting body of land Later, the land subsided, leaving Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and afterwards the other islands of this region above the sea.

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If the latter, then the high mountain would probably be the Mittagong Range.

if we accept forest hill as the summit referred to by the expression and particularly at the very top then the rest of the entry accords with what would be found on the other side of that hill for a descent is made into meadow flat country in which kangaroos and emus would have abounded in the early days and in eighteen thirty two an inn had been built there known as the kangaroo or cutter's inn This meadowland is situated around the small district of Aylmerton, a few miles easterly from Mittagong, and about a hundred years ago was known as Cananbagel, C-A-N-N-A-N-B-A-G-E-L, Plains.

This name was recorded by Surveyor W. Harper on May 21st, 1821, when surveying in the locality.

Commissioner of Enquiry Bigg, in his report on New South Wales, refers to the spot as Kenenbegil's, K-E-N-E-M-B-E-G-A-I-L-S, Plains.

Kenenbegil was a native chief of considerable renown, and would have been in the district when barracks and party passed there.

He was referred to by Ensign Francis Borrelier as Canaan Bagel, C-A-N-A-M-B-A-I-G-L-E, on November 7th and 8th, 1802.

To the westward we saw a brook down the country, which we supposed to be a river, which seemed to run north-west from south-east.

The land seemed very high to the southward, but still an open country, distanced twenty miles.