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“...SANTA CRUZ OR ST CROIX 329
by the English, but restored to the Danes after a few months.
Captured again by the English under Sir Alexander Cochrane
in 1807, it remained British until 1814, when it was again handed
to the Danes.
ACCOMMODATION. In Christiansted, the Misses Quin and
Mrs. Hark make arrangements for passing travellers and in
Frederiksted Mrs. Coulter keeps a boarding-house.
COMMUNICATIONS. There is regular weekly steamer com-
munication with St. Thomas by the Bull Insular House Line,
and schooner. The island is also on the route of steamers from
New York (see Appendix I). The roads of the island are good,
and well suited for motorists and cyclists. Good motor-cars
can be hired for 20 cents per mile.
SIGHTS. Passenger steamers on their voyage down
I the islands usually call at Frederiksted in preference “to
I the capital, since it is the more important shipping
point. They he in the roadstead and communication
with the shore is effected by boats. Frederiksted, or
West End, is...”
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