TRINIDAD. 



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Trinidad is already the depot for the Venezuelan lands which border the great 

 river, and it niio-ht one day take the same position with regard to the Colombian 

 plateaux through the Rio Meta. 



Port of Spain {Puerto Espana), usually designated by the simple word "Town," 

 is in truth the largest town, as well as the political capital, of Trinidad.* Yet 



Fig. 23. — Poet of Spain. 

 Scale 1 : 115,000. 



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at a distance it seems lost in the surrounding vegetation. Whole quarters are 

 embowered in verdure, and the shady avenues of the city are continued by fine 

 parklands towards the suburban villas dotted over the slopes of the hills. Till 

 recently water had to be brought by boats from a distance of nearly two miles, 

 but it is now supplied from the little river Maraval by an aqueduct three miles 

 long. 



The tranquil roadstead to which the place owes its popularity is well sheltered, 



* F. H. Hart, Trinidad. 



