CHAPTER VIII. 



TOPOGRAPHY — NORTHERN DIVISION : COUNTIES OF ST. GEORGE, ST. DAVID, 

 ST. ANDREW, AND CARONI. 



1. County of St. George. — This county is bounded on the 

 east by the rivers Aripo and Madamas, and a line connecting 

 the same across the mountains ; south, by Aripo and Caroni, 

 and by the Gulf of Paria, from the mouth of the Caroni down 

 to the Dragon's Mouths ; and north by the sea, from the river 

 Madamas to the Boca Grande. It is divided into eighteen 

 wards. 



Port-of- Spain, the chief town of Trinidad, is situated in this 

 county, just at the angle formed by the junction of the north- 

 west prolongation of the island with its main land, and about 

 two miles northward of the mouth of the Caroni river, at the 

 corner of a small semi-circular plain encircled by two spurs 

 running from the northern range towards the sea. It is from 

 two to two and a-half miles wide and nearly four miles in 

 length, along the sea-shore, towards which it declines in a 

 gradual slope of about fifty feet per mile. The St. Ann and 

 Marava valleys open on this plain. 



The town is well laid out, its streets running due E. and 

 W. and due N. and S., thus intersecting at right angles. 

 They are thirty to thirty-five feet wide, with paved gutters at 

 the sides, the centre being macadamised and gravelled. 



There are in Port- of- Spain but few places of general 

 resort. Brunswick Square, between Abercrombie and Frederick 

 Streets, is a pleasant promenade, surrounded by an iron railing 

 and planted with large trees, such as poui, roble, angelim, 

 and other densely foliaged trees or shrubs. It has nine 

 entrances, with corresponding alleys. There is in the centre of 

 the square a fountain with a bronze group, the gift of the late 

 Mr. Gregor Turnbull. 



The promenade between King Street and Marine Square 



