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“...‘Stores.”
General
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Savannah.
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citizens, Mr. Hipolite Borde. Port of Spain has
excellent stores, as the shops are called, built
of stone or concrete, with lantern roofs and orna-
mental iron galleries, and every conceivable
necessity of life can be obtained in Frederick
Street and Marine Square. The General Post
Office in St. Vincent Street is open from 7 a.m.
to 4 p.m. ; on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon;
and on Sundays and public holidays from 7 a.m.
to 8 p.m. The Savannah, known as Queen’s
Park, an extensive open space of nearly 130 acres,
is the centre of life in Trinidad, round which
is the fashionable residential quarter. It has few
trees except round the edge, but a clump of cabbage
palms popularly known as the Seven Sisters forms
a particularly noticeable feature. The Savannah
is covered with grass, on which golf, polo, base-
ball, football, and other games are played. It
is here also that the racecourse, with its...”
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seen, and also the former site of Richmond village,
which was completely effaced and where many
lives were lost. On reaching the lower lip of the
crater, one has a fine view of the devastated area
and also of other parts of the island, besides the
large crater lake. The return journey from
Chateaubelair can be made by mail canoe, which
leaves each morning at 6 p.m. and reaches Kings-
town at io a.m. The cost of this excursion should
not exceed jQi. For those who do not care for a
long day in an open boat at sea, the Soufrière can
be approached by road. All round the southern
end of the island, down the Palm Avenue, across
Arno’s Vale, and through the little town of
Calliaqua, winds the great road to Georgetown
on the eastern or windward coast, by which the
prosperous planters of the fertile Carib country
used to communicate with Kingstown. With an
early start, a riding horse, or carriage with a pair
of ponies, can easily cover the distance of 26
miles within...”
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