The international geography . Fig. 383.—Castries Harbour. its fine harbour, is the capital ; the town of Soufriere lies on a less impor-tant bay in the north-west. The exports are sugar, cacao, logwood and spices. 8io The International Geography St. Vincent is i8 miles long by ii broad. A stretch of volcanichills forms the backbone of the island, and extends here and there intospurs with rich valleys between them. The highest peak is the Morne aGarou, 4,000 feet ; the Soufriere, 3,000 feet, is an active volcano. In 1812a most disastrous eruption took place, which utterly ruined the greaterpart
The international geography . Fig. 383.—Castries Harbour. its fine harbour, is the capital ; the town of Soufriere lies on a less impor-tant bay in the north-west. The exports are sugar, cacao, logwood and spices. 8io The International Geography St. Vincent is i8 miles long by ii broad. A stretch of volcanichills forms the backbone of the island, and extends here and there intospurs with rich valleys between them. The highest peak is the Morne aGarou, 4,000 feet ; the Soufriere, 3,000 feet, is an active volcano. In 1812a most disastrous eruption took place, which utterly ruined the greaterpart of the cultivation, and in 1902 eruptions did immense the two mountains there is a lake nearly a mile in diameter,occupying the crater of an extinct volcano, and without either inlet oroutflow. In early times the island was left in the hands of the Caribs, andwas afterwards alternately French and British. The Caribs were, how-ever, so troublesome to the settlers that in 1796 the British authoritiesdeported t
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