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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
This island, the nearest of the Antilles to Barbados, about 78 miles distant due west, and within sight of it when the atmosphere is clear, is yet in most respects remarkably different, so as to afford an example of striking contrast.
In structure, geologically considered, it exhibits none of those peculiarities which are so conspicuous in the greater portion of Barbados. We in vain look for any traces of organic remains, such as rocks of coral, and shell limestone, and of infusorial chalk; and equally in vain for any marks of the modelling and transporting agency of submarine currents. Even the coasts and shores are not an exception. The former are not like those of the sister island, guarded by outstanding coralline reefs, nor are the latter, except in one instance, and that very partial, strengthened by sandstone now in the act of forming.
St. Vincent may be pronounced to be essentially volcanic. To this its origin, it owes all its peculiarities; the forms of its hills and mountains, often rising into cones; the shapes of its vallies, whether circular or crater-like, opening by an abrupt gorge, or narrow and contracted fissure-like, gradually descending and expanding; the quality of its rocks, all igneous, whether crystalline, such as its basalts, or aggregates of sandstone-like formation, such as its tufas.
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- The West Indies, Before and Since Slave EmancipationComprising the Windward and Leeward Islands’ Military Command, pp. 163 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1854