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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...”
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