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geous cathedral aisle. I am, however, afraid that 

 time has made the ladders by which the descent was 

 made when I first saw it unsafe and I advise visitors 

 to supply themselves with a stout rope to serve as a 

 substitute, I assure them that any trouble they take 

 will be well repaid by the glorious sight. 



There is a world-famed grotto called the Grotto 

 Azzurra (Blue Grotto) near the town of Capri at the 

 entrance to the bay of Naples which thousands of 

 people visit yearly ; but persons who visited both 

 say that the one on Gaspar-Grande excels it in 

 every respect except in the colour of the water at the 

 bottom of both. In the early morning and in the 

 afternoon a deep blue colour prevades Capri while 

 the water at Gaspar-Grande although about sixty 

 feet deep is not of such a lovely colour ; with regards 

 the size of both, the Capri grotto would go into a 

 corner of the magnificent one of Gaspar-Grande. It 

 therefore forms an interesting object to be visited by 

 travellers who visit our shores, and equally so to our 

 own people few of whom have ever seen it or, I be- 

 lieve, even know of its existence. 



Describe Monos (Monkey Island) with its many 

 handsome sea-side residences, some named after 

 celebrated English watering places, also much availed 

 of by the good people of Port-of-Spain as health re- 

 sorts. Huevos (spawn or egg of fish) with its soli- 

 tary private dwelling next opens to our view ; the 

 passage between it and Monos is the one chiefly 

 selected by steamers ; while the one between it and 

 Chacachacare, is chosen, on account of its short 



