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Domrnica.—This island lies between the French islands of Guade- 
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loupe to the north-west and Martinique to the south-east, in 15* 20' 
N. lat. and 61° W. long. It is twenty-nine miles long by sixteen broad, 
with an area of 292 square miles, and the mountains rise to an altitude 
of nearly 5,000 feet. The vegetation is luxuriant, and the forests contain 
. valuable timber : 
Johow,F. Vegetationsbilder aus Webda: eine Excursion nach 
dem kochenden See auf Dominica: Kosmos 1884, ii, pp. 112-130, 
270-285. Abstract in Engler’s Jahrbücher, vii. (1886), Literatur- 
bericht, p. 76. 
Nicholls, H. A. A. The Natural Resources of Dominica: Handbook 
of the West Indies and British Honduras, Colonial and Indian Exhibi- 
tion, 1886, pp. 120-126. 
Bn Ramage iis botanised — and St. Ludis for a joint Com- 
ttee appointed by the Royal Society and British Association, and his 
sollections are being determined at 
_ GnENADA.—Between 11° 58’ and 12° 30’ N. lat., and in about 61° 40 
W. long., and about twenty-one miles long by ' twelve miles in its 
greatest breadth, with an area of 125 square miles. The Grand Etang, 
alake on the summit of the mountain Syd he an elevation of 1,740 
. feet, is one of the most Mimárkalile natural feat 
Murray, G. A Half-holiday in nb. LIO s Chronicle, 
series 3, ili., pp. 8 
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ah. Frigat ac tonic Little Martiniga mie oe Cannas 
Little Cannoua D, Bail, Quatre, Moustique, and Baliceau 
AicA.—The most westerly and the largest of the British West 
Indian islands, lying west of Hayti or St. Domingo, and south of Cuba, 
bet tween 76° and 78° X w. long., and 17° 40’ and 18° 30' N. lat. Itis 
4,197 
miles, and the innate — from 5 1000 to 6,000 feet high, with here 
and there loftier peaks up to 7,500 feet 
T ayman Islands are a dependen ey of Jamaica. They lie to the 
north-west, between 19° 10’ and 19° 45’ N. lat., and 79° 30’ and 80° 35’ 
W. long. Grand Cayman, the largest of these islands, contains about 
2,000 inhabitants. Little Cayman and Cayman Brae are also inhabited. 
Pedro and Morant Cays to the south of Jamaica, in about 17° N, lat., 
isla 
are merely guano nde; Altogether these dependencies have an area 
of abou 
square mile 
A Voy age to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, 
-— . Sloane, Hans 
S Si Christopher, and Jamaica, with the Na tural 
istory 
of the last of those islands, London, 1707-25. Two vols. folio, with 
i à 274 plates. 
The Civiland Natural History of Jamaica. London, 
= Browne, P. 
: 1756. Folio. pp. 503, tt. 50, Botany, pp. 71-374, tt. 1-38. 
Jenman, G. S. Hand list of Jamaica Ferns. Demerara, 1881. 
Sm all 8vo. pp. 65. 
Flora of Jamaica has bee i The Ca ayman 
F.L.S., — 
-Islands have recently been deed Da gen c Mr. W. Fawcett, 
of the Botanical | Department, Jamaica, though the 
