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town of Basseterre, and dues a mile distant from the landing place. 
This land, cultivated as part of a sugar estate, contained some g 
soil, it was easily accessible Pn the town of Basseterre , and if in other 
respects suitable would have contributed to amenities of Govern- 
time on the Governor. The land had, however, some serious чейн 
It had а plain unbroken surface, and sloped in the direction of the 
vailing winds. d was эту ес fh without vM protection whatever from 
the north and north-east, when low during the greater part of the 
this land. I arrived, therefore, at the conclusion that the land was 
е unsuited for a Botanical Station 
The only other site to which my attention was called as likely to be 
er tad was situated to the west of the town of Basseterre, and this 
also formed part of a sugar estate. It was close to the sen-shore, and 
extended ana by a series of gradnal ped all of which were under 
cultivation. A considerable portion of this land was intended to be 
acquired by Government for the PB у эө of TE the town in this 
direction, and of affording a much needed expansion of the area 
available for building purposes. I carefully examined this land on two 
oecasions with the view of finding out whether any portion of it was 
suited for the purposes of a Botanical Station. The rocky land =: a 
broken charaeter to the extreme west was obviously out of the question. 
'The same remark, but for other reasons, чылча to the higher Атат of 
the land extending in ped direction y e. public hospital. In the one 
case the situation was rya es ; in the other it possessed 
Government House. One portion on the land to the eastward nearest 
to the town of Basseterre was, however, found to be far more promising. 
This consisted of a sheltered depression n with good soil extending in a 
line parallel with the sea. The extent of this sheltered land may not be 
more than 610.8 acres. If suitable arrangements are made by throwing 
up banks, planting live fences, or building good stone walls along the 
north and north-eastern boundaries of this land it might be € 
very suitable for a Botanical Station. There is a sufficiently large are 
of good land here fur nurseries and experimental plots, and the ipit 
known as * Cholera ground," forming the western limit of it might be 
laid down in grass and planted with ornamental and shade trees. At 
present this spot is, and has been for the last 20 or 30 years, under 
mira in canes. 
ully aware that the land here is very near the sea, and on that 
account may not prove suitable for the cultivation of many plants that 
thrive only in elevated places inlan am aware, also, of the com- 
parative dryness of the sea-coast lands at St. Kitts, and further of the 
sentimental objection that may exist with regard to associating the 
Botanical Station with the so-called cholera ground. It must be 
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eapital of the island, and contain some of the best residences dotted 
about on the ridges above. The grounds of the Botanical Station below 
