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a few hours, Mr. Cowie, the agent, was kind enough to arrange for a 
passage for me in the latter vessel, I went on board after dinner, and 
arrived off Basseterre, St. Kitts, early next morning. 
Sz. Kitts-Nevis. 
St. Curistoraer.—The three islands of St. Christopher, Nevis, and 
Anguilla. ge one Presidency, called the Presidency of St. Christo opher 
and Nevis. St. Christopher (ог more commonly St. Kitts), lies north- 
west of Mh erat: it contains 68 square miles and a population of 
about 30,000. It is а long narrow island somewhat bottle-shape in 
outline, with the neck pointing towards Nevis. The main portion is 
between 12 and 13 miles long, and contains several peaks and ridges 
cultivated appearance. First come rich expanses of  cane-fields 
with the houses and works nestling among trees, then the higher 
slopes with the deep verdure of grass lands, and, ultimately, the 
St. Kitis is a bright and interesting island. It is very healthy, and 
the people are enterprising and intelligent. К. can gre w almost every- 
thing suited to the tropics. Its only dra is occasional season 
of drought, when, owing to the porous white of pta soil, Végebatibi 
suffers considerably. 
There are 135 sugar estates, containing 18,507 acres of arable land. 
The chief productions are sugar, molasses, sweet are cassava, 
ground nuts, pigeon peas, a little coffee, cacao, and tobac English 
vegetables are readily grown at nearly all нове The m 
town is вЫ те; with a Population of 10,000 inhabitants. It 
several good buildings, including a fine church and court heres апа 
an attractive public square and garden 
Nevis.—The island of Nevis lies south-east of St. cat from which 
it is eun by a channel about 2 miles wide. Nevis is circular in 
outline, contains 50 square miles, and a population of abadi 12,000. 
About inakat of its 82,000 acres is, or has been, under cultivation: 
Nearly in the centre of ‘the island rises a anes peak (3,200 feet) 
with a dark wooded crater. The slopes of this are at first steep and 
covered with forest, they then become aga ta e steep and undulat- 
an аб + last spread out all round towards the sea. The soil of 
Nevis, aa from the decomposition of crystalline trachytes, is more 
clayey “wa that of St. Kitts. On that.account it is less easy to work, 
but it is by no means unfertile. Sugar is the chief product, but a large 
number of other articles are in course of being experimentally grown. 
Nevis differs from St. Kitts in the larger number of small proprietors 
it contains. These cultivate ground provisions and fruits, and, if suitable 
cilities existed for shipping them, Nevis might. become much more 
prosperous than it is at present. The chief town s Charlestown ; 
this is 12 miles by boat from Basseterre in St. К "à small 
Government io be pini on the service ce between tho 
two islands, 
