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of which forms Port-of-Spain harbour, is said to be 

 capable of affording shelter and a safe anchorage to 

 all the navies of the world, where neither cyclone nor 

 hurricane can, according to past records, ever reach 

 them, and in which they could manoeuvre to their 

 hearts' content. 



Describe the numerous islets, dotted over the 

 South-western portion of the Gulf, and used chiefly 

 as health resorts by the inhabitants of Port-of-Spain. 

 Most of them you have often visited and there en- 

 joyed the luxurious bathing for which they are 

 noted. Let us take them in the order in which they 

 present themselves to our view. Pelican, commodi- 

 ous, low, breezy and cool ; Caledonia, high, hot, and 

 uncomfortable, and owing to the numerous rough 

 steps (over seventy) inaccessible to invalids, its chief 

 recommendations being its delightful bathing place. 

 Next comes Craig, a mere rock with a comfortable 

 little house, but, also on account of its numerous 

 steps unsuited to invalids. Then the Immigration 

 depot where newly arrived East Indian Immigrants 

 recuperate for a short time, after their long sea voy- 

 age, before being allotted to their various future 

 homes ; and where the overworked immigration staff 

 occasionally rest from their arduous labours. Then 

 Rock, " a nice little, tight little island," breezy and 

 delightfully cool ; Lenegan's which is set apart for 

 quarantine purposes, but seldom needed. Our atten- 

 tion next centres on Carrera with its convict prison, 

 erected principally by prison labour under the sepa- 

 rate designs of Harley, Fraser, White and Bourne, at 



