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“...islands. Next to it in size is Haiti, the old Espagnola or Hispaniola, comprising Haiti at the western end and Santo Domingo, both republics. The British islands are divided into six groups: (i) The Bahamas; (2) Barbados; (3) Jamaica, with Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Cayman Islands; (4) Trinidad and Tobago; (5) the Windward Islands, including Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines; and (6) the Leeward Islands, comprising Antigua, with Barbuda and Redonda ; St. Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla; Montserrat, Dominica, and the Virgin The other islands of importance are : Porto Rico and St Thomas, Santa Cruz or St. Croix, and St. John, which with some of the neighbouring islets and cays form the Virgin Islands of the United States (American); Guadeloupe (with its dependencies the Saintes, Mane Galante, Desirade or Deseada, and St. Bartholomew), and Martinique (French) ; Curasao and its dependencies (Dutch), and St. Martin (owned jointly by the Dutch and French). • . ,, „ . British Guiana...”
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“...Chapter VIII THE LEEWARD ISLANDS The name Leeward Islands, formerly a geographical designation (see page i), is now applied to the British Colony comprising the Presidencies of Antigua (with its dependencies Barbuda and Redonda), Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis (including Anguilla), Dominica and the Virgin Islands, which were federated by an Act of the ImperialParliament (34 and 35 Vic. c. 107) in 1871. Their total area is 704 square miles, or about that of Anti county of Surrey. The seat of government is ANTIGUA Where Nelson refitted his ships in 1805 ^Urprr^ced " Anteega ’-which is situated m latitude 17 6 N. and longitude 61° 45' W. about 40 miles east of Nevis, the same distance north of Guade- loupe and 27 miles north-east of Montserrat, has an area of 108 square miles and a population of 30,080. The tand ^ oval and has three distinct characteristics. In ous so^h-west it is volcanic and mountain- mation and north-east it is of coral for- mation, the soil being composed of calcareous...”
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“...possession of the island ; but in the following year it was ceded to England by the Treaty of Breda, and the Government was entrusted to Lord Francis Willoughby's brother, Lord Willoughby of Parham. The subsequent history of Antigua has been, on the whole uneventful. A few years after the cession of the island there were only five hundred black people in it, while a hundred years later the population included 37,808 slaves, 1,230 free people of colour, and 2,590 whites. In 1689 the inhabitants of Anguilla sought refuge in Antigua, which was defended from the in- cursions of the French and Indians by Sir Timothy Thornhill and a body of troops. The notorious Mr. Parke became Governor in 1706. Violent dissensions arose between him and the populace, but he refused to resign and was at length killed bv a riotous mob on December 7th, 1710.1 3 CONSTITUTION. By an Act of 1871, one Executive and one Legislative Council, under one Governor, were constituted for the six (now five) Presidencies of the Leeward...”
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“...phosphate of alumina, which were discovered in 1865 and are being worked by the Redonda Phosphate Company under licence subject to the payment of bd. (12c.) per ton royalty. The exports now amount to nearly 7,000 tons annually. This "lonely rock," as Charles Kingsley described it in “ At Last,” is rarely if ever visited by tourists, to whom it has little to recommend it. ST. CHRISTOPHER The Mother Colony of the British West Indies St. Christopher, better known as St. Kitts, which with Nevis and Anguilla is a Presidency of the Leeward Islands, lies in latitude 170 18' N. and longitude 62° 48' W., 45 miles to the west of Antigua. The island, which is of volcanic origin and therefore very mountainous, is about 23 miles long, and has a total area of 68 square miles and a population of 18,770. The central part consists of a range of rugged moimtains running south-east and north-west, culminating in Mount Misery, 3,711 feet high. These mountains, which are clothed with virgin forest, bush, and grass...”
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“... brought his ships to anchor at the precise spot which the French had just quitted, a manoeuvre watched by a large number of onlookers from the slopes of Nevis. The island was, however, restored to England by the Treaty of’ Versailles in 1783, following Rodney’s victory over de Grasse off Dominica on April 12th, 1782. St. Kitts has been British ever since, although it was raided by Villeneuve in 1805, just before the battle of Trafalgar. CONSTITUTION. The Government of St. Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla is administered by an officer entitled the Administrator. The Presidency has an Executive Council and a Legislative Council over which the Governor, or in his absence the Adminis- trator, presides. The Council meets in annual session at Basse- terre in St. Kitts....”
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“...following year. In 1629 the settlement was nearly destroyed by the Spaniards, and in 1706 it was ravaged by the French, who destroyed property to the value of half a million, and carried off between three and four thousand slaves. The island was taken by the French under the Marquis de Bouillé in 1782, but restored to Great Britain by the Treaty of Versailles in the following year. CONSTITUTION. Nevis forms part of the Presidency of St. Christopher and Nevis, which also includes the island of Anguilla. These islands were united by a Federal Act of the Leeward Islands Legislature in 1882. Q...”
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“...ANGUILLA—MONTSERRAT 231 being of no object, and refreshments should be taken to beguile the tedium of the journey ! ANGUILLA The Snakeless Snake Island Anguilla, the most northerly of the Leeward Islands about 60 miles north-west of St. Kitts, has an area of 35 square miles. It has as dependencies the “ Dogs ” and neighbouring islets, and a population of 4>23°- Geologically it consists of coral lying on trap rock and covered at irregular intervals by a mixture of red or yellow clay with coralline debris. INDUSTRIES. Cotton, coco-nuts and sisal are cultivated in the island, the chief industries of which were until recently the raising of live-stock and the production of salt and garden stock. CLIMATE. Anguilla is very healthy, and there is a marked absence of malaria and other tropical ailments from this island. HISTORY. The island, which derives its name from its resemblance to a snake, or possibly from its having been sup- posed to be infested with snakes, was discovered by Columbus on...”
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“...sugar, cotton, and ground provisions, whilst a variety of grape grows there to perfection. Many of the peasants subsist by fishing. Saint Martin, of which one part is owned by France md the other by the Netherlands (see page 336), takes ts name from Sieur Saint Martin, who took possession of :he island by virtue of a Commission of Louis XIII. rhe chief town in the French quarter is Marigot, and Jie industry is the cultivation of cptton. Saint Baxthélemy, or St. Bartholomew, lies to the south of Anguilla, about 108 miles to the north-west of Guadeloupe. Its eight square miles are very moun- .ainous, and its soil, in spite of a scarcity óf moisture, is lot unfertile. Bananas, quassia, and tamarinds are...”
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“...Caracas Bay (3 hours for the expedition), a former quarantine station with an ancient Spanish fort and a delightful beach for bathing, repays a visit. So too does “ Albertina,” an Ostrich Farm, where ostrich feathers can be purchased. In Aruba is the establishment of the “ Lago ” com- pany, where oil is transferred from the shallow draft vessels able to cross the two bars at the entrance of Lake Maracaibo into ocean-going tankers. ST. MARTIN The jointly-owned Island St. Martin, which lies between Anguilla and St. Bar- tholomew, is partly French and partly Dutch. Twenty square miles of the island belong to France, and form a dependency of Guadeloupe, and 18 square miles to Holland, forming with St. Eustatius and Saba a depen- dency of Curasao. The island rises to a height of 1,236 feet above the sea, and has only a small cultivable area. INDUSTRIES. Salt is the principal industry of both colonies but cotton and live-stock are also exported. The chief settle- “eI)t ln ‘he French portion is Marigot...”
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“...of, 6t Mbermarle, Lord, 339, 342 Vlbert, Prince (Duke of York), visits Trinidad (1913), 127 Albert Victor, Prince, 45, 86, 92, 107, 133, X40, 163 Mfred, Prince. See Edin- burgh, Duke of Ml America Cables, 37 Mleyne, Hon. Forster M., 96 Mleyne, Sir John Gay, 83, 106 Mmirante Bay, 417 Mnatuk, 385 Ambergris Cay, 389, 392 Amerigo Vespucci, discoverer, 37° Amity Hall, 292 Anchovy, Jamaica, 256 Ancon, 3, 419, 427, 428 Andros, 59, 60 Anegada, 246, 248 Anglican Church, the, 10 Angostura bitters, 112 Anguilla, 199, 216, 231 Animal Flower Cave, 108 Annandale, Falls of, 162 Anna’s Hope, 322 Anne, Princess, 216 Annotto Bay, 252, 256, 273, 280 Anopheles mosquito, 5 Anstey, Bishop A. H., 91 Antigua, 197-210 Accommodation in, 200 Area, situation and popula- tion, 197 Books on, 16 Climate, 198 Communications, 200 Constitution, 199 Dependencies of, 198 Freemasonry, 201 History, 198-9 Parishes, 198 Sports^ 200 Antigua and the Antiguans, 203, 207 Antilla or Antiglia, 1 Antilla, Cuba,/ 341, 357 Antilles, Greater...”