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Tn order to show the relative size and importance of these Colonies, 
the following table may be usefully consulted :— 
| 

Area in |Population | Revenue Chief Industries 
Colony. Square | in in in order 
Miles. | 1881. 1885. of importance. 


£ 
Jamaica - - 4,193 580,804 595,156 | Fruit, sugar, rum. 
Turks Islands - 169 4,732 9,757 alt. 
British Honduras - 7,562 27,452 52,245 | Mahogany, logwood, 
sugar, fruit. 
Windward Islands— 
St. Lucia - - 237 38,551 38,493 | Sugar, cacao. 
Sugar. 
St. Vincent - 147 40,548 23,857 , rum, arrow- 
Grenada - - 133 42,403 41,894 | Cacao, spices. 
Tobago - - 114 18,051 10,825 Sugar, rùm, cocoa- 
nuts. 
Barbados - 166 171,860 145,758 | Sugar. 
Leeward Islands— 
irgin Islands - 57 5,287 1,753 | Small produce. 
St. Christopher - 68 29,137 
evis - gi 50 11,864 } STIS. j Supa 
Antigua - - 170 35,244 41,957 | Sugar, molasses, pine 
apples. 
Montserrat - - $3 10,083 5,546 | Sugar, lime-juice. 
inica - - 291 28,211 15,841 | Sugar, cacao, fruit. 
Trinidad - - - 1,754 153,128 | 429,307 | Sugar, cacao, cocoa- 
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The chief sugar islands at present are Barbados, Antigua, St. Vincent, 
Tob. 
go. Jamaica still produces sugar and rum to a 
no 
Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., steps will be taken in this direction. 
Grenada is in a comparatively prosperous condition, owing to the 
gradual supersession of sugar cultivation by that of cacao. Spices are 
the suitability of its soil and climate to the growth of nutmegs, cloves, 
cardamoms, pepper, and vanilla, will nown as the “spice 1s of 
state of decay, and produces chiefly sugar, rum, and arrowroot. Mos 
of the land under cultivation isin the hands of a few persons, and hence 
esen 
such as cacao, coffee, spices, to . The want of capital and ready 
ns of communication between the interior fertile lands and the sea 
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