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in a spacious yard inclosed within a handsome iron railing, 

 and having a broad pavement of slab stone, leading from the 

 great western entrance to the street. In addition to these 

 two cathedrals, I may mention the following chapels or places 

 of worship : — The Parochial Chapel of the Rosary ; the Chapel 

 of the Sacred Heart, not yet completed ; the Church of St. 

 Patrick, New Town; the Chapels of St. Joseph and the 

 Immaculate Conception — all Roman Catholic; All Saints' 

 Chapel of Ease (Church of England) ; the Wesleyan, the 

 Baptist, and Portuguese Chapels ; and the Scotch or Presby- 

 terian Kirk. 



The quays of Port-of-Spain are good, solid constructions, 

 being built of heavy blocks of stone strongly united by 

 clamps. There are two jetties : one on iron pillars, projecting 

 into the sea to a distance of 600 feet ; it is 30 feet wide. The 

 other is not more than 150 feet, and is used mostly as a landing 

 place for boats. 



With three or four exceptions, all the houses in Port-of- 

 Spain are one or two stories high. In the lower or commercial 

 part of the town they are pretty regularly and closely built ; 

 they are more scattered in the upper part, many houses having 

 large lots attached, which are planted with trees and flowers. 

 These dwellings being generally low and almost hidden amidst 

 the foliage, the town assumes a peculiar and, in some parts, a 

 rather rural aspect. The view of Port-of-Spain from the 

 harbour is not imposing, as the ground on which it stands is, 

 on an average, not more than 30 or 40 feet above the level of the 

 sea. Vessels anchor from half a mile to one mile and a half and 

 even two miles from the shore; goods are landed in flats, and 

 so smooth is the water that all kinds of lumber are made into 

 rafts and towed to the wharves. 



To the west of the town, between the St. James's Road and 

 the sea, is the public cemetery, divided into two sections — the 

 Catholic and Protestant. This cemetery is the property of the 

 corporation, and placed under its exclusive control. 



Port-of-Spain is built on a light soil, which permits a quid 

 and easy filtration of the surface water to the sea, whenever it has 

 not been carried off by the surface drains. The lower or southern 

 part of the town consists of land which has been made or 

 claimed from the sea within the last forty years. Grumblers 



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