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APPENDIX. 



Shipping (1890), 309 vessels of 367,000 tons (136 British of 149,000 tons). 

 Railways (1891), 230 miles open or nearly completed. 

 Telegraphs: 600 miles ; offices, 31 ; messages, 112,500. 

 Army: 600 regulars; 32,000 militia and reserves. 

 Primary schools (1890) : 300 ; attendance, 15,000, 



PANAMA. 



Area, 31,570 square miles; population (188 P, 285,000; 1890 (est.), 310,000. 



Chief to-wns : Panama, poptdation, 15,000; Colon (Aspinwall), 5,000 ; David, 4,620. 



Interoceanic Railway (opened 1855) : 90 mUes ; passengers (1888), 1,300,000 ; goods, 320,970 tons. 



THE PANAMA CANAL. 



Length, 46 miles; begun, 1881 ; works susperded, March, 1889. Original estimate, £26.320,000; 

 actual outlay, £60,000,000. Work done, about 12 miles ; estimate of time required to complete the 

 cutting, 20 years from 1891 ; probable cost, £120,000,000, apart from the outlay akeady incurred. 

 Total cost, including arrears of interest, deterioration of plant, &c., over £200,000,000. 



WEST INDIAN ISLANDS.* 



POLITICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



Independent 

 Spanish Islands 



British Islands . 



French Islands . 

 Dutch Islands . 

 French & Dutch 

 Danish Islands . 



I Haiti 



I Pan Domingo ...... 



Cuba, Isle of Pines, Puerto Rico 

 /Bermudas, Bahamas, Jamaica, Turks, St. 

 \ Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Dominica, St. Vin- 

 cent, Grenada and Grenadines, Barbados 



Virgin Islands, Montsen-at, St. Lucia 



St. Bartholomew, Guadeloupe, Martinique 



St. Eustatius, Saba ..... 



St. Martin 



St. Thomas, St. John, Santa Cruz . 



Republic . . \ 



Repiiblic .. . ' 



Assimilated colonies 

 Representative institU' 

 tions without respon 

 sible government. 

 I Without représenta- I 

 [ tive institutions. / 



Assimilated colonies 

 I Without responsible 

 I government. / 



Mixed system. 

 I Without responsible \ 

 ( government. J 



Total Trade 



ForeigTi Trade 

 lh90. 



£3,800,000 

 12,000.000 



6,200,000 



3,200,000 



1,200,000 



£26,400,000 



CUBA. 



AREAS AND POPULATIONS. 



Provinces. Divisions. 



/ Pinar del Rio 



West )Habana . 



j Matanzas 

 ' Santa Clara . 



Central Puerto Principe 



East . Santiago 



Total 



48,860 



1,521,684 



Exclusive of Trinidad, Tobago, and the islands on the Venezuelan coast. 



