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MEXICO, CENTEAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. 



to Holland. The spot is still sliown wTiere the partition was amicably arranged 

 by treaty in 1648. Since then the arrangement has been faithfully observed, 

 although the island has also been occu^jied by some British settlers, who now out- 

 number both the Dutch and French colonists. 



Sugar was formerly cultivated, but the inhabitants are now chiefly engaged in 

 the production of provisions and working the salt-pans, which yield on an average 

 about 10,000,000 bushels of salt. 



Marigot, capital of the French part, stands on the bay of like name, north of 

 the now obstructed Simpson's Lagoon. It is a free port, and being well sheltered 



Fig. 220.— St. Maetin. 

 Scale 1 : 250,000. 



G3°io 



West or breenwich 



to 5 

 Fathnms. 



Depths. 



5 to 12 

 Fathoms 



12 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



3 Miles. 



attracts some shipping. P/iilipsbiirg {Philishirg), the Dutch town, lies on a narrow 

 bjach between the semicircular southern bay and a vast salt-pan worked by a 

 Franco-Dutch coinp.'iny, 



St. Bartholomew. 



Tliis islet, familiarly called St. Bart, occupies the southern extremity of the 

 bank on which stand Anguilla and St. Martin. It develops a crescent scarcely 

 « miles long from east to west, and not more than 8 square miles in extent, 

 culminating in the centre in a limestone hill 1,000 feet high. 



The capital bears the Swedish name of Fort Omtave {Gustaria), for the island, 

 after b-ing French from 1648 to 1784, was acquired by Sweden, and again ceded 

 to France in 1877 for the sum of £11,000. Gustaviu stands on the west side, 



