Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II BARBADOS
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV BARBADOS
- CHAPTER V ST. VINCENT
- CHAPTER VI THE GRENADINES
- CHAPTER VII GRENADA
- CHAPTER VIII TOBAGO
- CHAPTER IX ST. LUCIA
- CHAPTER X TRINIDAD
- CHAPTER XI BRITISH GUIANA
- CHAPTER XII ANTIGUA
- CHAPTER XIII MONTSERRAT
- CHAPTER XIV ST. CHRISTOPHER'S
- CHAPTER XV NEVIS
- CHAPTER XVI DOMINICA
- CHAPTER XVII WEST INDIAN TOWNS
- CHAPTER XVIII CONCLUDING
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II BARBADOS
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV BARBADOS
- CHAPTER V ST. VINCENT
- CHAPTER VI THE GRENADINES
- CHAPTER VII GRENADA
- CHAPTER VIII TOBAGO
- CHAPTER IX ST. LUCIA
- CHAPTER X TRINIDAD
- CHAPTER XI BRITISH GUIANA
- CHAPTER XII ANTIGUA
- CHAPTER XIII MONTSERRAT
- CHAPTER XIV ST. CHRISTOPHER'S
- CHAPTER XV NEVIS
- CHAPTER XVI DOMINICA
- CHAPTER XVII WEST INDIAN TOWNS
- CHAPTER XVIII CONCLUDING
Summary
The Windward and Leeward Islands’ military command, as the designation implies, is one of great extent; situated in the Caribbean Sea, it stretches through at least thirteen degrees of latitude, or about 780 miles measuring merely from shore to shore, exclusive of the widely-spread interior of British Guiana. Extending from about 5° to nearly 13° North, and from 59° to 63° West, it includes four civil governments; viz., that of the Windward Islands, formed of Barbados, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Granada and the Granadines, and Tobago; that of the island of Trinidad adjoining the continent of America, separated from it only by the Gulf of Paria and within sight of its mountains; that of British Guiana (part of that continent) a country of vast extent, a considerable portion of it even now a terra incognita, and its boundaries hardly yet settled; and lastly that of the Leeward Islands, consisting of Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis and St. Christopher's; — each government (Trinidad excepted) a Bishop's See.
Lying in the way of western navigation, the outskirts of the great continent, the islands enumerated were well called The Antilles, (Anti-illas) and the Lesser, to distinguish them from the Greater, Jamaica, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Hispaniola or St. Domingo.
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- The West Indies, Before and Since Slave EmancipationComprising the Windward and Leeward Islands’ Military Command, pp. 1 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010