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“...LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS Maps The West Indies . . . . after PAGE xiv Bermuda . . . . • , .* 42 New Providence, the Bahamas * • it 60 "A TOPOGRAPHICALL DESCRIPTION AND AD- MEASUREMENT OF THE YLAND OF BARBADOS ” „ 72 Reproduced from Ligon’s Map, dated 1657 Barbados ....... 76 Trinidad and Tobago . • • , 116 Grenada, St. Vincent and the dines . Grena- 154 St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, Dominica and Montserrat . 168 Jamaica .... 254 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Marie Galante AND THE SAINTES . . . . 300 The Virgin Islands 320 Cuba and Porto Rico . 340 Haiti and Santo Domingo 362 British Guiana 370 Dutch Guiana or Surinam 412 The Panama Canal . . facing 422 xi...”
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“...(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 and its Dutch neighbour, Surinam, on the north coast of South America, British Honduras in Central America and the principal ports on the Spanish Mam have much in common with the West Indian islands, and are also dealt with in this Guide. GEOLOGICAL FEATURES. The West Indian islands are partly volcanic and...”
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“...n was first started by the late Hon. Frank Gurney on Belvidere—the estate owned by the rebel JulienFédon—in the early’eighties of last century, and rapidly spread. Coco-nuts and kola are also exported, and the cultivation of grape-fruit and limes is increasing. The few sugar-works still standing are mainly concerned with the manu- facture of rum for local consumption. The soils of Grenada are rich and have been compared with those of Java for fertility. In Carriacou the cultivation of Marie Galante cotton, started in the sixties of last century, has never been abandoned. CLIMATE. The climate of Grenada is equable and healthy. The year is divided into two seasons, the dry which begins towards the end of January and lasts until the full moon in May, and the wet lasting for the rest of the year; but the heaviest rains fall in September and November. The average annual rainfall is 80 inches, but in the interior it is nearly twice as much. The island is practically free from hurricanes, there...”
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“...York in 8 days. (See Appen- I dix I.) The boat fare between the steamer and the shore is ] 3 francs. Motor-cars are obtainable at the chief towns. A I public service of motor-cars plies between Pointe-ri-Pitre and Basse Terre (60 kil., 3 hours). Leaving each town at 6 a.m., I they return at 6 p.m. A Coastal steamer leaves Pointed-Pitre j for Basse Terre and the intermediate communes every Monday I and Thursday at 7 a.m. and returns every Tuesday and Friday | at the same hour. It visits Marie Galante every Wednesday I and Sunday, Désirade on the first and third Thursday in each j month, and the Saintes every Monday, returning in each case on j the same day. Other parts of the island can be reached by I diligence and small steam and sailing craft. An auxiliary 1 steamer of the Cie. Générale Transatlantique calls at Saint j Barthélemy and St. Martin every 28 days on her voyage from I Pointe-a-Pitre and Basse Terre to Haiti, returning 11 days later. .1 ^SPORTS. Lawn tennis and Football are played...”
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“...and both are 6 kilometres from Basse Terre. Their climate : is very agreeable. In the rainy season those residents of Pointe-a-Pitre : who can afford to do so leave town for the heights of: Petit Bourg, Sainte Rose, or Lamentin, where they can , enjoy the thermal baths of the Ravine Chaud, or Sofaia,, where there are sulphurous springs. Others seek: recreation and health in tlie Saintes. GUADELOUPE’S DEPENDENCIES Guadeloupe has five dependencies: Marie Galante, j Désirade, the Saintes, Saint Martin, and Saint Bar- thélemy. Marie Galante, which lies sixteen miles to the south- ■ east of Guadeloupe proprement elite, was discovered by Columbus on November 3rd, 1493, and named after his I caravel. The island is of coral formation. Its area is; about 60 square miles and its population 15,182. It: was first settled by the French, and thereafter frequently [ changed hands between them and the English; but:...”
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“...GUADELOUPE’S DEPENDENCIES 305 since 1816 it has remained under the Tricolour. Its capital is Grand Bourg, and its staple industry the pro- duction of sugar. Désirade, six miles to the east of Grande Terre, was also discovered by Columbus on November 3rd, 1493. Like its neighbours, it is of coral formation. Some cotton is produced upon it; but its chief industry is the raising of live stock and fishing. To the south, between it and Marie Galante, are two islets known as Terre d’en haut and Terre d’en bas, not to be confused with those of similar names among the Saintes. The Saintes, a group of islands seven miles to the south of Guadeloupe proprement elite, were once a stra- tegic position of great importance, and gave their name to the sea fight between Rodney and de Grasse on April 12th, 1782, which the French call the Battle of Dominica (see page 244). 'They comprise Terre d’en haut to the east, with Ilet a Cabrits, Grand Ilet, and the Ilets de la Coche, and dès Augustins, and Redonda...”
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“...River, 325 Manchester, Duke of, 283 Manchioneal, 292 Manchineel trees, poisoftous properties of, 209 Mandeville, 255, 283 Manganese, 339 Mangrove Lagoon, 318, 320 Manjak, 72, 138 Manning, Edward, 264 Manning, Sir William, 269 Manoa, 371 Man-o’-War Bay, 144, 149 Manzanilla Bay, Trinidad 110 136 Manzanillo Island, 421 Marabella, 115, 116, 138 Maracaibo, 334, 335, 407 Maracas Bay, m, 142 Maracas Fall, 135 Maraval, 129 Mare pool, Barbados, 94 Margarita, 407 Marinao Beach, 341, ju ->c2 Marie Galante, 304 Marie Galante Cotton, 153 Marie Louise, Princess, 127 188, 265...”