JAMAICA '2So 



An excellent hotel, one of the best on the island, is found 

 in Spanish Town, where one may enjoy rest and enter- 

 tainment in the quiet English way. 



Port Antonio, on the northeast side, is the second com- 

 mercial city in Jamaica. This is a queer old place, which 

 had no importance until within the past two decades, 

 when it was made the center of the fru it-shipping indus- 

 try. It has two safe harbors, the western one capable of 

 allowing large vessels to lie alongside the wharves. It is 

 now visited regularly two or three times a week by fruit- 

 steamers from Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New 

 York. Most of the bananas consumed in our Northern 

 markets are shipped from here. A line of railway con- 

 nects Port Antonio with Kingston. Many beautiful drives 

 diverge from the city, one leading southward across the 

 Cuna-Cuna Pass to Bath, to the opposite side of the island. 



On the northwest coast the principal town is Montego 

 Bay, situated on a beautiful and picturesque inlet, but, like 

 most of the Jamaican towns, a place of little interest or 

 importance, although the scene of many business transac- 

 tions. It is connected by rail with Kingston, one hundred 

 and twenty-five miles distant. 



There are many other small and picturesque towns 

 along the north coast, such as Lucea, Falmouth, St. Ann's 

 Bay, Port Maria, and Buff Bay ; and on the south coast 

 are Port Morant, Morant Bay, Black Eiver, and Savana- 

 la-Mar. 



Most of the other villages of Jamaica are merely market- 

 places where the gregarious blacks congregate on certain 

 days to sell their yams and fruits and make their humble 

 purchases from the few shops, usually kept by sonic coal- 

 black Levi or leather-colored Isaacson. Hebrew names 

 appear upon all the signs of the roadside simps in Jamaica, 

 and one cannot avoid a shock after inquiring for the 

 proprietor, whom one naturally expects to be of the type 

 with which we are familiar in Chatham Street, to find him 

 a son of Timbiictoo. 



