TRINIDAD : THEN AND NOW. 



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Spaniards — who, at the time, also owned Venezuela. 

 Be that as it may, the English now claim it, and hold 

 fast to it. 



We have now finished our Saturday evening's 

 stroll, and as i 6 the shades of night are falling fast, ' ' 

 we will descend and wend our way homeward ; we 

 have done enough for one day ; and if you are satis- 

 fied with your guide we will wander forth some other 

 day. 



Before finishing this sketch I take the liberty of 

 advising visitors to our shores, should opportunity 

 offer, not to take leave of us without witnessing one 

 of these glorious sunsets ; the place from which they 

 can be seen is easily accessible, and I promise them 

 they will be well repaid. They will often recall and 

 dilate upon the beauties while reclining round their 

 happy firesides — in a less genial clime — when the 

 rain is beating on their window panes and the chilling 

 wind is howling outside their doors, and so thinking 

 or talking, wish they were once more sitting on the 

 spot from whence they had witnessed the glorious 

 glowing sunset in bright and sunny Trinidad and 

 thus remember the poet's words : 



" And while the rich tranquillity we view, 

 Hope's sweetest promises again renew, 

 As if the Twilight Angel hover 'd there, 

 To waft from nature's rest a balm for care," 



