KOYAL GARDENS, KEW. 

 BULLETIN 



OF 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



No. 81.] SEPTEMBER. [1893. 



St. Vincent is one of the -roup of islands known in the West I 

 as the Colony of the Windward Islands. The other members ol 

 group are St. Lucia, 21 miles to the north, and Grenada, 68 miles 1 

 Barbados, under a separate Government, is 100 mile 



I by Columbus on the 22nd January 1498. 

 it is situated in 13" 10' north latitude and 60° 57' west longitude. It 

 is 18 miles in length and 11 in breadth, and contains, according to the 

 ( oIoi>ia( Offir, List, nearly 85,000 acres of land, about half the area 

 \. with only 13,000 acres under permanent cultivation. 

 The population in 1S<>1 was 1 1 ,().") 1. The majority of \]\ ■ adjoining 

 islets, known as the < irenadines. air dependencies of St. Vincent. The 

 following account of these is taken from the excellent " Historical 

 Geography of the Colonies," by Mr. C. P. Lucas, of the Colonial Office. 



" These dependencies contained at the last census a population of 

 2,691, the largest of them being Bequia, the next largest Union Wan. I 

 andCannouan. Bequia is 1,-s than nine miles to the south of St. Vincent. 

 It is of irregular shape, long and narrow, running from north-east to 

 south-west, and it has an area of about six square miles, its principal 

 bay is Admiralty Bay on the western side. It is badly watered, and 

 perhaps hardly deserves the old account given of it in the history of 

 the Carihhy Islands, that 'it would be fruitful enough if it were 

 cultivated; "for hut little sugar or other products are now grown here, 

 and the main attraction of the island is its game. Pere Lab it states 

 that in his time Bequia contained dangerous snakes, and was for that 

 reason called Little Martinique, th,,u-h. a- he s ;iV s. ii mLdit .-qually 

 well for the same reason have been christened Little Sr. Lucia." 

 (pp. 220, 1). 



According to Bryan Kd wards (///>/. H'tst f»,ti<:<, L. p. 105 ) the 

 area of the several islands in the Grenadines is as follows : — Bequia, 

 3,700 acres; Union, 2,150 acres ; Cannouan, 1,777 acres ; and Mustique, 

 about 1,200 acres. 



