286 TRINIDAD. 



St. George's Chapels (Roman Catholic) ; All Saints' Chapel of 

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

 Presbyterian Kirk ; the Baptist, and Portuguese Chapels ; the 

 latter of which has been built by the emigrants from the Portu- 

 guese islands, who have also a native minister. There is, strictly 

 speaking, no hospital-building, specially erected for the purpose; 

 but the colonial government leases a block of houses for the 

 reception of the sick, forming, on the whole, a very shabby and 

 inadequate institution. The quays of Port-of- Spain are fine, solid 

 constructions, being built of heavy blocks of stone, strongly united 

 by metal clamps. There are two jetties attached to the quays 

 one, on iron pillars, projects into the sea to a distance of 600 feet, 

 and is 30 feet in breadth ; the other is formed partly on solid 

 ground, and partly on wooden piles. A large iron shed is erected 

 on the solid part, under which goods are deposited for embarka- 

 tion, or after being landed. A small fort, mounted with cannon, 

 stands near the junction of the jetty and the king's wharf; it was 

 erected less for the protection of the town or harbour, than as a 

 battery of salute and a guard-house. 



Although schools are attached, in general, to the different 

 churches and chapels, yet there are only two seminaries, strictly so 

 called, in Port-of- Spain, that of the ladies of St. Joseph, known 

 as the Convent, and St. George's College both Catholic institu- 

 tions for the education of youths of both sexes respectively. The 

 former consists of a block of substantial and well-adapted build- 

 ings, with the chapel of the Patron Saint attached. There are, in 

 the three separate buildings of the convent, about 100 boarders, 

 50 day scholars, and nearly 300 poor girls ; the latter receiving 

 gratuitous instruction. St. George's College admits day scholars 

 only ; average number, about sixty. Besides several private 

 schools, a grammar school has been established by the Eccle- 

 siastical Board of the Church of England, for the reception of day 

 scholars. The borough council of Port-of-Spain also maintains 

 two public schools one for boys and the other for girls of the 

 poorer classes with 120 pupils attending ; in addition to which 

 are other charity schools in town, maintained by the Church of 

 England, the Roman Catholics, the Wesleyans, and other dissen- 

 ters. Total number of pupils inscribed in town, 860 ; at the 

 model school already noticed, 138 ; total 998. 



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



