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IT is somewhat surprising that in our much explored world there is still a group of large islands in the Atlantic which in a botanical and probably also a zoological sense may be said to be imperfectly known. For until we know what lives on the cloud-capped summits of islands like Fogo and San Antonio, which attain elevations of 8000 and 9000 feet above the sea, it can scarcely be said that the Cape Verd Islands have been scientifically explored. Surely here would be a good piece of work for an English yachtsman and two or three investigators from Lisbon. Allowing two weeks for each island, the examination of Fogo and San Antonio would only involve about a month's absence from St. Vincent, the assumed starting-place, and a host of botanical and other curiosities would be gathered in the deep ravines and on the uplands of those mountainous islands. With government aid it could be carried out by one of the learned societies of Lisbon.
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GUPPY, H. Suggested Botanical Exploration of the Higher Summits of the Cape Verd Islands. Nature 112, 472 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112472a0
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