Cache Valley Clarion | 1941-07-10 | Page 7 | Isle of Martinique

Isle of Martinique Martinique, West Indies posses-lion posses-lion of France, is an island 385 square miles in area with a quarter quar-ter of a million inhabitants or an average of about 650 persons to the square mile. Much of the interior in-terior is devoid of human life because be-cause it cannot be cultivated, while more than one-fifth of the total number of inhabitants live in and around the capital and port, Fort de France. Martinique is situated between Puerto Rico and Trinidad in the curving island chain that separates sepa-rates the Atlantic ocean from the Caribbean just 1,260 miles from the Panama canal.