The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . s an adequatewater-supply and drainage system, and a notable authority—the late Sir Rubert Boyce—pronounced it one of the mostsanitary cities in the West Indies. The second town inorder of importance is San Fernando (population 8667),thirty-five miles from the capital. Next to it comesArima (population 4020), which has been granted a charterof incorporation, and stands about sixteen miles inland fromPort of Spain. INDUSTRIES. The soils of Trinidad, though varied, areext
The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . s an adequatewater-supply and drainage system, and a notable authority—the late Sir Rubert Boyce—pronounced it one of the mostsanitary cities in the West Indies. The second town inorder of importance is San Fernando (population 8667),thirty-five miles from the capital. Next to it comesArima (population 4020), which has been granted a charterof incorporation, and stands about sixteen miles inland fromPort of Spain. INDUSTRIES. The soils of Trinidad, though varied, areextremely fertile, and are therefore capable of producinglarge crops of sugar, cocoa, rubber, and all kinds of tropicalproduce. About 445,703 acres are now cultivated and597,637 remain still ungranted. Cocoa is by far the largestindustry of the island, the value of the exports of thiscommodity being now about double that of sugar, whichonly occupies second place. Molasses, rum, rubber, bitters(Trinidad is the present home of the famous Angosturabitters, the manufacture of which was transferred to it TR Dragons Montis ^.
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