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government. They are inhabited almost solely by 
negroes. Farther to the east is Porto Rico, another 
Spanish colony, with its dependencies Vieque and Cule- 
bra. Here the Greater Antilles end. North of Cuba 
and Hayti, slanting north-westerly towards the coast of 
Florida, extends the system of low-lying islands, rocks, 
coral reefs, and sand banks, known as the Bahama Is- 
lands. These belong to England. 
The second division consists of the Lesser Antilles, or 
Caribbees, which are subdivided into the Leeward and 
Windward groups. The former comprises the Virgin Is- 
lands — which are, St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John, 
Danish ; Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and many 
rocks and islets, British ; and Anguilla, St. Barths, St- 
Eustatius, St. Martin, Saba, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montser- 
rat, Antigua — the seat of the Leeward Islands govern- 
ment, -—Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, and Domi- 
nica. Of these, part of St. Martin, St. Eustatius, and 
Saba are Dutch ; part of St. Martin, Guadeloupe, and St. 
Barths are French, and the others British, forming, 
along with the Virgin Islands, the Confederacy of the 
Leeward Islands. The latter, or Windward group, com- 
prises Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados — 
the seat of the windward Islands government, — Grenada, 
the Grenadines, and Tobago. Of these Martinique is 
French, and the others, to Tobago, British, forming the 
Windward Islands government. The Island of Trinidad 
is also British, but a separate colony. 
The extent of the archipelago north and south is from 
the Tropic of Cancer to the ioth degree of north lati- 
tude ; and east and west from about the 6oth to 
the 85th degree west longitude. The Atlantic ocean 
