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rving condition. The Le оранта Council of the Presidency had 
voted certain sums of money from time to time towards alleviating the 
most urgent cases of distress, and if rain came it was hoped that some 
early maturing crops would be possible tobe grown. The “ Partridge” 
left Basseterre about 6 o'clock, and coasted along the leeward shore 
broke over the top of Mount Misery, the fanciful resemblance of 
mountai d slo ds to the figure of St. Christopher noticed by 
Columbus was fully realised. St. Eustatius, celebrated for ‘its most 
perfect crater possible,” making up five-sixths of the island, was passed 
negroes lives in the bosom of an old voleano, with JY one small 
landing place and a stair leading up 800 feet into the to 
Early the next (Sunday) morning we found P ROS passing Dog 
Island and Prickly-pear Cays, outliers of Anguilla, and making for 
rocus Bay, an open roadstead well sheltered from the north-east trades. 
The coast line at this point was about 150 feet high, formed of, 
probably, tertiary caleareous marls. On the highest point was a neatly 
built court house, with a flag-staff and signal station. Below the cliffs 
in this spot was a small margin of beach with bright glistening sand, 
suggestive of those curious nullipore sands formed from the calcareous 
skeletons of certain alge. 
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ANGUILLA. 
Anguilla (little snake) belongs to the Sy кае of St. Kitts-Nevis, 
and is distant 60 miles north-west fro e former island. It contains 
The elevations are chiefly along the coast, the interior recedes from the 
coast, and forms a basin-like depression. In recent books, descriptive 
of the West Indies, it is stated that there isa salt lake in the centre of 
the island, If this occupied the basin-like depression abore dures ioned, 
this lake must have disappeared many years ago. The is fully 
exposed to the trade winds, which sweep over it with verre force 
during the greater part of the year. There are few or no swamps, 
aud to rearing cattle, ponies, and small stock. These are shipped to 
St. Thomas, where they find a ready market. 
December 14.—The Acting-Magistrate of Anguilla, Мг. Edwin 
Baynes, came on boa А hi receive me foe On and it was arranged 
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urch. After service we rode in the direction of th. cultivated por- 
that had been completely abardoned on aceount of the drought. A 
little rain had fallen the pev week, but it had done little to moisten 
the soil, which was dust to a considerable . epth. ʻe went on 
board foe lunch and retur ed immediately after. The Governor held a 
conference with the principal inhabitants to devise means for alleviating 
