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“...164 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
it is nearly twice as much. The island is practi-
cally free from hurricanes, there having been four
occasions only on which it is known to have been
visited by gales of hurricane strength. Near the
sea-level the maximum mean temperature is 90°
Fahr., and the minimum 68° Fahr., but in the
mountains it often falls below 6o° Fahr. The
death rate is only 21 per thousand, a figure which,
bearing in mind the usual infant mortality, must
be considered low.
History. It is not known when Grenada received its
present name, but it appears that it was called
Concepcion by Columbus, who discovered it in
1498, on his third journey. In 1650 Du Parquet,
the Governor of Martinique, who was a nephew
of D’Esnambuc, the first French coloniser in the
West Indies, having purchased the island from
the French “ Company of the Islands of America,”
started for it immediately with 200 men, and,
having taken formal possession of it, built a fort
there and...”
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“... three miles east of
St. Thomas. The Danes' took formal possession
of it in 1684, but it was not properly settled
with respect to population until 1716, when
permission was given to sixteen of the inhabit-
ants of St. Thomas to cultivate that island.
General
Aspect....”
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