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“...THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Chapter I GENERAL INFORMATION The West Indies : Their Position and Names : Geology : Climate : Health : Food and Beverages : Meals : Ex- penses : Money : Banks : Insurance Policies : Amuse- ments and Sport: Roads and Motoring. The West Indies consist of a chain of islands varying in size from 44,178 square miles, the area of Cuba, to small islets of only a few acres in extent, which stretch in a curve from Florida to the northern coast of South America. Beginning at the north-west with the Bahamas, they end at the south-east with Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela. They owe their name to the fact that Columbus when he first sighted them believed that he had reached India by a western route, as he had for long hoped to do. The name Antilles, which is also given to the islands, is said to be derived from Antilla, or Antiglia, a mythical land which was believed to exist in the west, and is placed on ancient charts about two...”
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“... stretch of sandy beach, from which the bathing is perfect, while a delightful freshwater douche can be enjoyed at the " Spout ” in the Carenage. The roads are too hilly for cycling to any extent. Boats can be hired at the Carenage. The sea fishing is good, and the rivers can be fished for mullet, brochet, sard, and mud-fish. The natives use avocado pears, green grass- hoppers, red bananas, and sometimes worms and cockroaches as bait. The St. Andrew’s Racing Club, founded in 1897, holds flat races periodically, and race meetings are occasionally held at Queen’s Park, St. George’s. Rifle shooting is encouraged by the St. George’s Rifle Club, founded in 1907, which has its range at the Queen’s Park. CLUBS. The St. George’s Club, which was opened in 1888, and faces the Carenage, is very hospitable to visitors: Next to it there is a Public Library and Reading-room open from 10 a m. to 9.P.M. on weekdays and on Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m., where the latest periodicals can be seen and...”
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“...GRENADA 163 George’s, there is an exquisite stretch of sandy beach from which the most delightful sea-bathing can be enjoyed. .The Government have provided a landing- | stage, and the use of a bathing house can be had for a charge of 6d. per head. Another favourite bathing- ; P’ace is at the Spout, where ships watered in the old days. Here a freshwater douche from the old pipe-line ! can also be enjoyed. Government House stands on rising ground about I 32o feet above the sea-level, overlooking the town and harbour, from which it is a mile distant. Built in 1802- 1807 it was modernised in 1887 and a new wingwas added in 1902. The view from the terrace is unsurpassed. On the Governor’s reception day visitors are always made welcome. . TT-««°üd with an easy gradient leads to the Hospital 1 Hill Forts on a plateau 400 feet high adjoining the town ion the north. Here the British under Sir George I (afterwards Lord) Macartney made a brilliant stand I against the French...”
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“... John Moore, the hero of Corunna, two years later. i The Mome now looks peaceful enough; but truth to tell it presents rather a melancholy appearance. Its officers’ quarters are deserted, its barracks empty, and even its former tennis courts are rapidly becoming over- grown with bush. But the glorious view still remains and well repays the ride. It is more extensive than that obtained from the terrace of Government House, including as it does the superb mountain ranges of the interior, a long stretch of the coast-line to the south, and the summits of the Pitons (see page 181) in the 1 Ï ii $ [ i distance. J The Vigie, a quarter of an hour’s drive from Castries, or five minutes’ row by boat across the harbour, is scarcely less full of historic associations than the Mome. , Probably the most desperate fighting which it witnessed was in 1778, when we captured St. Lucia from France. I The lines of the English, who, under General Meadows, had entrenched themselves there...”
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“... edge of the crater, with a £ stretch of well-cultivated sugar lands on its lower slopes, i At a distance of about five miles across the channel on I the right is the little Dutch crater island of St. Eustatius. I Proceeding, the rugged mass of Brimstone Hill (779 feet)...”
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“...-mentioned Bottom (an inaccessible Bottom among the high mountains). They affirm’d, there was in the Head of it a very /parkling Stone, like a Carbuncle of ine/timable Price ; that the Mon/ter commonly veil’d that rich Jewel with a thin moving skin, like that of a Man’s Eyelid, and when it went to drink or/ported it/elf in the deep Bottom, it fully di/cover’d it, and the Rocks all about receiv’d a wonderful Lu/tre from the Fire i/fuing out of that precious Gem.” There is a rude shelter by the side of the lake, where ponies can be tied up while the visitor proceeds afoot to the famous Rosalie View. Here there is one of the most magnificent vistas in the West Indies. From a fore- ground of tall tree-ferns, rubber trees, and a wealth of tropical foliage, stretch eight or nine miles of densely wooded valley and mountain, ending in the dim and blue distance with the surf-fringed shore of Rosalie Bay on the windward coast. A visit to the Boiling Lake, which was rediscovered about...”