252 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
remark, in passing, that the avz-fauna, the bird-life, of 
this cluster of islands is as distinct and isolated from 
that of Tobago, Trinidad, and South America, as is 
the geographical position of the group. 
Grenada is the southernmost of these volcanic islands 
and terminates in latitude twelve, north, the Caribbee 
chain. It is a little over eighteen miles in length and 
seven in breadth, and is very rugged, the interior of 
the island being one mountain ridge with its offsets, 
and there is a lesser comparative area of fertile land 
than in St. Vincent. The mountains are volcanic; 
there are several extinct craters, in the largest of 
which there is an attractive lake two and one-half 
miles in circumference, two thousand feet above the 
sea. 
St. George’s, the only port of any size, lies on the 
south-western coast, its walled fort, St. George, oc- 
cupying a bold promontory commanding the town, 
along and over the ridge of which it is built. With 
its deep, fissure-like harbor, its sandy “carenage,” 
its white-walled houses of stone, its encircling, 
battlemented hills seven hundred feet in height, St. 
George’s, harbor and town, is highly picturesque. 
We reached the harbor at night, but our captain 
dared not enter, and stood off and on till morning. 
The sky was ablaze with stars, and the Southern Cross 
appeared when the clouds passed. Two planets glowed 
in the sky till sunrise, streaming fire from out the 
murky clouds and casting bright reflections on the 
water. 
The harbor of St. George’s seems to have been 
formed by volcanic forces, as it is hardly more than a 
narrow fissure, and the hundred-fathom line of sound- 
