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a day or two at Mandeville, a hill 

 resort with an ideal climate and re- 

 minding one of a village in rural 

 England. From Kingston we returned 

 by the new railway across the eastern 

 end of the island to Port Antonio, 

 stopping on the way at Bog Walk, far 

 famed for its rare ferns. 



Columbus in describing Jamaica to 

 Queen Elizabeth is said to have crushed 

 a piece of paper tightly in the palm 

 of his hand, and on releasing it ex- 

 claimed : "There is Jamaica!" Cer- 

 tainly, a true description of the island, 

 which is entirely made up of mountain 

 chains and peaks with intervening nar- 

 row, steep valleys. The coast is scal- 

 loped all about with little bays with 

 usually bold shores. Annotta Bay is 

 the only village I recall having any ex- 

 tent of level land. 



As there is no perceptible tide at 



