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Show BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF ST. VINCENT Waa an Earth'r 1'arailHe II. fore tbs He.eut Awrul llUaaiee. Ht. Vlnociit. whli h tins sitllcred from the eruption of Its own souflrlero volcano. vol-cano. 1h 0110 of the moHt boautirul and pictiireiiiuu iHlundn in tho llrltUh Weat Indian croup. It hits an an a of 131 SMUarv mllcH and bus been do-acrllied do-acrllied as one of tho Hushing Jewels that lie like a iieikluco around tho Caribbean Ken. The lust HrllieK con-bus con-bus crt'dltod It with a population of I 61), two. of whom a hiruu iiiujurlty aro negroes ci i;nged In tho cultivation of aiinnr ciino. which la the principal j crop. Two hundred yenra aim It was ' llio homo of Iho Cnrlti Indians, who ; wero Induced by the French to Join ' In a rovnlntliin nuiiltiMl Knulund. They , wore crushed and thousand worn transported. Hundreds, rather tlinn ; biihinll, threw Ihemsolvca Into Uie ' aeo. A few descendant of thesej orlg-; orlg-; lual owners of the Islund atlll exist ! on lauds rr inled to thciu by the llrlt-i llrlt-i Ish gov umetlt. , Ht. Vincent, llko all the Islands Id frUlitful cataclysui known to tho world up to that lime. The whole coutlgiiratlon of the Inland was changed. The eastern end sunk Into tho Hi'U. and where it stood there la now a great depth of water. Tho vol-cunlc vol-cunlc forces remained quiescent until lsS2, and then tha warning rumble was heard aguln; hut it wus a fulsu alarm, and the terrible scenes of the early part of the century were nut ru-prated. ru-prated. Tbu island of St. Vincent lie 100 gard those as dangcrou ' I be Induced lo enter tl.."1 1 j |
