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sugar or other products are now grown here, and the main 
attraction of the island is its game. Pére Labat states that 
in his time Bequia contained dangerous snakes, and was: for 
that reason called Little Martinique, though, as he says, it 
might equally well for the same reason have been christened 
Little St. Lucia.’ (pp. 220-1.) 
According to Bryan Edwards (Hist. West Indies, I., p. 405), 
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. 
The following particulars of the physical condition of 
St. Vincent are taken from a Sketch of the Colony prepared by 
Mr. T. B. C. Musgrave for the Jamaica Exhibition, 1891: 
‘The geological formation of St. Vincent is volcanic, all the 
rocks of the island indicating that origin. So recently as in 
1812 the “Soufriere,’ a mountain at the north end of the 
island, 4,048 feet high, broke out in eruption and overwhelmed 
much of the surrounding country with scoria and ashes ; a deep 
crater was then formed, closely adjoining one of still larger 
dimensions, the result of an eruption ata period more remote. 
At the bottom of the older crater, some 1,600 feet down, is 
asmalllake about a mile in diameter. The water appears 
impregnated with sulphur and occasionally emits offensive 
though invisible fumes. 
‘A central backbone of mountainous country varying in 
height from 2,000 to 4,000 feet, and densely wooded, traverses 
St. Vincent from north to south. Rocky and wooded spurs run 
down to the sea on the west or leeward coast of the island. 
The east or windward coast, especially towards the north end 
of the island, in the Carib country, affords much more level 
Jand. 
‘The Carib country is a broad and fertile tract sloping 
gently backwards from the sea, for a distance of some 4 
miles, to the base of the hills of the central mountain range 
which then rises abruptly and culminates in the Soufriére. It 
derives its name from having, upwards of a century ago, been 
allotted to the aborigines of the island for their occupation. 
‘The Soufriere forms the northern end of this mountain 
range. Next to itis the Morne Agarou, having an elevation of 
over 4,000 feet. Mount St. Andrew, about 2,500 feet, forms the 
southern extremity, and dominates the Kingstown valley. 
‘The valleys are fertile and well watered, with fine streams 
running through them, which turn the different water mills. 
These streams, in the dry season, comparatively small, swell 
into raging torrents after heavy rains. The windward slopes 
of the Soufriere range are drained by a channel called the Dry 
River, which runs through the Carib country, and which from 
its peculiarity deserves notice. 
‘ Before the eruption of the Soufriére in 18)2, a stream of 
average size filled this, now dry, watercourse, and emptied 
itself into the sea. During the eruption, the channel of the 
stream was completely filled and choked with scoria, rocks, and 
gravel, underneath which the water now, in ordinary times, 
