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“...Redoubt on the east. Over the promontory straggles
I the picturesque town of St. George’s, the red roofs of
jthe houses forming an agreeable contrast to the rich
Igreen of the tropical foliage. On the eastern side of the
ICarenage is the " Ballast Ground.” It was on a strip
lof land at the foot of this cliff and extending across the
«mouth of a sheet of water known as the Lagoon, then
la lake of brackish water but now an arm of the sea
«that the original French settlement, Port Louis, stood
I,see Pago 161). On the lower hills round the Carenage
jis a chain of forts—dismantled for many years, but
Hooking still very menacing. Beyond them rise moun-
ftains to a height of from two to three thousand feet, while
in the foreground the deep blue of the water, dotted
jwith the trim little white sloops which ply to St. Vincent
land the Grenadines, completes a charming picture.
[ 0n November 18th, 1867, a very remarkable oc-
fcurrence took place in the Carenage. Between 5 and
i.20 p.m. the water suddenly...”
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