CONTENTS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
olonies dealt with—British Guiana—Trinidad and Tobago— 
Windward Islands—Barbados—Leeward Islands—Jamaica—Relative 
z s ortanc i . iaga 
i 
relating to botanical and resou o: est Indies— 
Scheme for an Imperial Bolak] “omar ch ed ess ne va 
GUIANA. 
Histo and characteristics—Total ‘area—Nature 
om 
—S avannah lands—Pioturesque and fantastic mountains—Se 
.—Cost of produ 
tion alud from £16 to £9 per ton—So ils “of “British Guiana—Well 
e s 
in —Forest uce—Timber—Bala ubber—Present 
oA of forest fants Vetanble character of Guians iore 
iii. BARBAD 
Pos ition—Size—Conformation—History TE i aces 120 per square 
mile—No immigration—Sugar industry only source of prosperity-- 
T s—Ca i tn m 
Fe ee ee eee 
rin 
Barbados aloes—Glance pitch—Fisheries—Wattles—Grasses f for — 
fodder—Sour grass—Hay grass 
AD. 
Position—Area—Conformation—Soil—Annual mean temperatur 
Rainfall—Population— e immigrants—Tota l acreage—Cultivable 
Pri 
Tl per cent.—Pri and Cro lands—Princi cnltural 
industri s ing iiin ia sapeo coffe r the 
dominant industry—Total land under sugar cane—Average crop— 
Capital inv ested two and a half million sterling Na ir aa of 
abandoned—Vacuum pan s ar and yellow 
arpitala Charmetor of sisi... Moiri of agricultu m 
chemist—Root and rind fungus—Trini rum—Man 
bitters—Cane farming—Prospects of fe patent, Pe saliva 
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