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“...Lucea (25 miles, 4 hours), fare 8s. ; Santa Cruz and Balaclava (16 miles, 3 hours 5 min.), fare 6s. ; Black River and Ipswich (18 miles, 3 hours 5 min.), fare 6s. ; and Savanna-la-Mar and Montpelier (22 miles, 4J hours), fare6s., daily. The Jamaica Government Railway (gauge, 4 feet 8J inches) starts from the west end of Kingston, which it connects with Spanish Town (33 min.), Old Harbour (t hour 9 min.), Porus (2 hours 27 min.), and Montego Bay (7J hours). Another line extends from Spanish Town to Bog Walk (25 min.) and Port...”
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“...and 20 min. from Kingston). From Bog Walk, Ewarton is reached by a branch line (27 min.), and another branch line, the first section of which was completed in 1913, opens up the Rio Minho valley and Upper Clarendon from Hay Pen. Week-end tickets are issued at the price of a fare-and-a-half. Carriages meet all the trains at the principal stations. In the following tables are the names of the stations and their distances from Kingston. MONTEGO BAY LINE PORT ANTONIO LINE * Miles. Height above sea. Kingston • 8 Gregory Park . 6i 21 Grange Lane . 9 50 Spanish Town. 11} 94 Hartlands 15 65 Bushy Park . 20 49 Old Harbour . 22} 69 May Pen 32* 205 Four Paths 37 176 Clarendon Park 42$ 220 Porus . 46} 435 Williamsfield . 53 1300 Kendal . 54* 1352 Greenvale 6l 168a Balaclava 7°i 800 Appleton 7&i 425 Maggotty 80 780 Ipswich . 85* 783 Catadupa 94 1074 Cambridge 97* 399 Montpelier 103 392 Anchovy 105* 718 Montego Bay . 112* 4 Miles. Height above sea. Kingston 8 Bog Walk 20* 288 Riversdale 26| 503 Troja...”
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“...Raymond and Tyson were shot for conspiracy in 1660. Eagle House, which stands behind the Public Hospital in King Street, is full of historic associations. Locally it is known as John Crow House, from the eagle which surmounts one of its gate-posts. It is said to have been the residence of William O’Brien, second Earl of Inchiquin, Governor of Jamaica 1660-61. To Bog Walk (boca de agua, or water’s mouth), a very beautiful gorge of the Rio Cobre, is a charming drive from Spanish Town. A pleasant excursion can be made from Kingston by taking the early morning train to Spanish Town, and driving thence through the gorge to the village of Bog Walk. At the lower end is the Dam of the Rio Cobre irrigation canal, and at the upper end is...”
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“...three miles of Spanish Town-. Here he can embark on a punt on the irrigation canal— which, shaded as it is by coco-nut palms and tropical foliage, is of surpassing beauty—rejoining the car again within a short distance of Spanish Town. The whole trip occupies the best part of a day, though, of course, much less by motor-car. From Spanish Town a branch Of the Government Rail- way runs by a circuitous route to Port Antonio on the north side and towards the eastern end of Jamaica. The line runs up Bog Walk on the right bank of the Rio Cobre, crosses the island to Annotto Bay (see below) through large areas under banana cultivation to its destination. Port Antonio, on the north side of the island, 75 miles by train from Kingston, is the headquarters of the United Fruit Company of Boston, Mass. It is situated on the shore of a magnificent harbour divided into two parts by a promontory on which their palatial Hotel Titchfield stands. The small island opposite it is called Navy Tslanfl. The town...”
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“...miles from Port Antonio) was once a shipping port of consequence. In the spacious Court House, burnt down in 1926, were portraits of General Sir John Keane, Lieut.-Govemor from 1827 to 1829, and Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor from 1839 to 1842. Fortunately these pictures were saved from the fire. The Parish Church contains monuments to John Hodges (1787), a member of a well-known West Indian family, and James Blake (1753). From Falmouth to Montego Bay (see page 286) the distance is 22 miles. From Bog Walk on the Port Antonio line a branch line of the railway runs to Ewarton (17J miles, one hour). From there an enjoyable expedition can be made over Mount Diablo (10 miles) to Moneague, whence a drive may be taken through the famous Fern Gully to Ocho Rios and the Roaring River Falls. The road over Mount Diablo, or Diavolo, affords superb views of the Blue Mountains. Fern Gully is a natural gorge of surpassing beauty, with steep sides covered with ferns, through which a winding road runs towards...”
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“...Virgins, 139, 140, 144 Blairmont, 377 Blanche, H.M.S., 308 Blanchisseuse, 144, 145 Blankenburg, 376 Bligh, Captain, 188, 189, 190 Bliss, Baron, 396 Blome, Richard, 108, 216, 219, 231 Blue Basin, 132, 133, 138 Bluebeard Castle, 323, 326 Blue Hole, 286 Blue Mountains, Jamaica, 255, 257, 262, 279, 288 Boaz Island, 53 Boca Chica, 405 Boca de la Serpiente, 113, 115, 144 Boca Grande, Cartagena, 405 Boca Grande, Trinidad, 121 Bocas del Dragon, 113, 115 Boddentown, 301, 303 Body Ponds, 200 Boeraserie, 376 Bog Walk, 260, 285 Bogle, Robert, 268 Bogue Islands, 292 Boiling Lake, Dominica, 245 Bois Immortel, 140 Bolivar, Simon, 401, 409 Bonaire, 339 Boqueron, 363 Borde, Mr. H., 122 Boreas, H.M.S., 211, 232, 249 Botanical Gardens, Bermuda, 59 — Dominica, 243 — Georgetown, 383-4 — Grenada, 162 — St. Kitts, 221 — St. Lucia, 173 — St. Vincent, 189-91 — Trinidad, 128 Bottom, the, 342...”