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“...204 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
two hundred years old. They were the gift of one Peter
Lee in 1704, and are inscribed :
Donum domini Petri Lee ad Templum Divi Johannis
in Antigua.
Government House is an unpretentious building
beyond the Cathedral, not far from the hospitable New
Club. Opposite to it is the Prison, which occupies a
building erected in 1735 for the troops. The inmates
comprise long-term prisoners from all the islands of
the federation. The St. John’s Training School for
boys, which has replaced Skerret’s Reformatory, deserves ;
a visit. The Botanic Station adorns the site of a
disused quarry on the hill to the east of St. John’s
overlooking the harbour.
The Central Sugar Factory at Gunthorpe’s, about 3J
miles from St. John’s, is one of the best equipped I
centrals in the West Indies. (An account of sugar-
manufacture will be found on page 43^-) Wallings i
Reservoir (ij hours there and back by motor-car), the:
main source of the island’s water supply, was opened in 1
1901...”
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