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grounds to labourers working on the estates. Portuguese are 
said to make the only satisfactory tenants on small holdings. 
One unfavourable feature regarding the population of St. Kitts, 
according to the evidence, is that about one-third of it is con- 
gested into a small area within the town of Basseterre. 
361. NEVIS is almost circular in form, with an area of 50 
square miles. It is separated from St. Kitts by a strait of 
about two miles wide. The cultivated parts of the island are 
volcanic ery ce or Peak of Nevis, Pe feet high 
Only 50 acres are in the hands of the Crow The area of 
cultivable land is 23,914 acres, little of which i above 500 feet 
elevation. nly per cent. of Nevis is now under forest, 
while the area ponstibialls piste is 6,868 acres, or a little 
more than one-fifth of the total a 
362. The population at the census of 1301 was ia ee or 262 to 
the square mile. The number of persons employe d in the sugar 
t. Kitt 
“do with this. The people in Nevis have more p , and ne ir 
“ lives are passed under more favourable circumstances.” 
SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
The circumstances of the sugar propia in St. Kitts and 
363. 
Nevis are so very similar that, unless otherwise mentioned, the 
facts given below apply to both islands. 
364. The area under cultivation in sugar in Kitts Aa is 
22,253 acres, or about tas ae cent. of the cultivable area 
are 35 estates kiri over 500 acres, 50 estates with Pus 
between 200 an 500 Gino and 26 estates with Sie between LOO 
and 200 acres, mith ka ere are 25 estates, chiefly in Nevis, with 
less than 100 acres. Altogether there are 136 estates, with a total 
area of 22,253 acres; 46 of these estates are owned by non- 
resident proprietors ; and 79 estates poe aes steam power, and 13 
wind power. Nearly all the sugar produced is raw or muscovado 
sugar ; one estate aay produces vacuum pan centrifugal sugar 
T u 
ing a ton of muscovado sugar is stated to ‘be 97. 9s. 43d., viz., 
92. 11s. 4$d., in St. Kitts and 97. 1s, 43d. in Nevis. 
