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_— retards native enterprise, and prevents the growth of the 
prosperity which, however, it is felt, must come sooner or later to 
St. Lucia. 
Dominica is third as regards size of the British West India Islands, 
but as regards utilised resources and general weeny itis only a little 
ee than Tobago. This is due to a variety of causes. The greater 
part of Dominica is still unopened virgin joreat, The population is 
mi and Fan scattered. The old industries of sugar and coffee are 
in a state of decay, and no new ones have taken their places. Caca 
taken up, and the aggregate result of these, it is hoped, will in a few 
Antigua, like Debido is comparatively flat as compared with the 
other islands, and sugar plantations have been so largely extended over 
it that very little woodland is now left. Like Barbad dos, also, sugar is 
the chief industry in Antigua, and if ever new industries are established 
there, the process must be a very gradual ae and they will be only taken 
up when the remunerative growth of sugar has absolutely failed. Pine- 
apple culture is carried on to some Sciot, but both in the export of fresh 
fruit to England and the United States, and in canning it there is a 
for considerable expansion. Antigua would afford a good field for the 
experimental cultivation of fibre pla ee and such plants as Furerea 
gigantea and F. Cubensis, native to the West Indies, which support a 
fibre industry on the abandoned estates of Mauritius, should be largely 
lanted. 
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fibre, and the general level character of the surface would atly con- 
tribute to reduce the cost of carting, and of all cultural operations, 
This subject, both as regards Sisa 1 and Mauritius hemps, De 
1887. has already been fully discussed in Bulletin No. 3; for March 
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g to the pioneering efforts of ny seg Sturge, of Birmingham, 
Mou tiorrat has become very favourably known for its lime-juice, t the 
pr oduce of the lime tree ( Citrus medica var. Laas and in this respect 
they have benefited, not only this island, but many people in the other 
islands that have taken up the cultivation as imitators. Lime-juice isan 
d th 
will extend its operations to other cultures for which the island is 
ooo Si and so fully utilise the resources of this small but interesting 
d 
St. Christopher and Nevis are two a lying closely aol 
united under one Government in 1883. e form vered with 
green slopes of sugar-cane, sweeping all ‘oun the island towards the 
central cone, known as Mount Misery. It is fairly prosperous, owing 
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The Virgin Islands, with a ae population, are gi! er x 
the cultivation of small produce by the ntry, a 
Brg prepared sugar. Fibre plants are abundant, and Retires rw 
There o zeni remain to be noticed two islands, viz., Barbados and 
Tobago. has hitherto been one of the most prosperous of the 
West India Islandis and with its teeming population, at the rate of 


