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MEXICO, CENTRAL A^IEEICA, WEST INDIES. 



Danish, Frencli, and esj^ecially English ; but tlie old créole dialect, which possesses 

 a copious religious literature, has mostly disappeared. Some Protestant emigrants 

 from the south of France reached the island from Holland, after the revocation of 

 the edict of Nantes, and occupied the Brandenburg quarter beyond the town. 



Fig. 208. — St. Thomas Harbour. 

 Scale 1 : 27,000. 



to 16 

 Feet. 



Depths. 



16 to 32 

 Feet. 



'32 Feet 

 and upwards. 



1,100 Yards. 



The main tlioroughfare, a mile and a half long, skirts the shore, and above it 

 rise tiers of houses on the slopes of the porphyritic hills encircling the harbour. 

 From the culminating point of the island (1,560 feet) an extensive prospect is 

 commanded of the surrounding island-studded waters. 



