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CHAPTER VIII. 



NORTHERN DIVISION. COUNTIES OP ST. GEORGE, OARONI, ST. DAVID, ST. ANDREW. 



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 Carom, 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 Crrande. 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 river Caroni. Two spurs, running 

 from the northern range towards the sea, encircle a small plain, 

 from one to two miles broad, and about four miles in length, along 

 the sea shore ; the semicircle thus formed declines towards the 

 sea in a gradual slope of about sixty feet per mile. The St. 

 Ann's and Maraval valleys open on this plain. 



The town of Port-of-Spain is built at the eastern corner of the 

 plain, being protected by the hills forming the spur in that direc- 

 tion ; it is well laid out, its streets running due north and south, 

 and east and west, thus intersecting at right angles. The streets 

 are thirty to thirty-five feet wide, with pavements and kennels at 

 the sides, the centre being macadamized and gravelled. There are 

 in Port-of-Spain but few public places of general resort. Bruns- 

 wick-square, between Abercrombie and Frederick-streets, is a 

 pleasant promenade, surrounded by an iron railing, and planted 

 with trees best adapted for shade such as the poui, angelim, 

 roble, and other densely foliaged trees or shrubs : it has nine 

 entrances with corresponding alleys. The promenade between 

 King-street and Marine-square forms a fine walk, also lined with 

 rows of trees ; it is about a hundred feet wide, extending from the 

 St. Yincent or Queen's wharf, to the Catholic cathedral, and 

 running east and west in a line parallel with the sea. This 

 promenade is divided, nearly in the centre, by an open plot, which 



