BEING A DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLANDS, PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY, EDUCATION, AND LIBERTY AMONG THE COLORED POPULATION GENERALLY. BY MRS. NANCY PRINCE. BOSTON: DOW & JACKSON, PRINTERS, 14 DEVONSHIRE ST. 1841....

A denomination under which is comprehended a large chain of islands, extended in a curve from the Florida shore on the northern peninsula of America, to the Gulf of Venezuela on the southern. These islands belong to five European powers, viz. Great Britain, Spain, France, Holland and Denmark. An inhabitant of New England can form no idea of the climate and the productions of these islands. Many of the particulars that are here mentioned, are peculiar to them all. The climate in all the West Indi

The most considerable and valuable of the British West India Islands, lies between the 75th and the 79th degrees of west longitude from London, and between 17 and 18 north latitude; it is of an oval figure, 150 miles long, from East to West, and about 60 miles broad in the middle, containing 4,080,000 acres. An elevated ridge, called the Blue Mountains, runs lengthwise from East to West, whence numerous rivers take their rise on both sides. The year is distinguished into two seasons, wet and dry