An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . France, was one of thediscoveries of Columbus. It is of an irregular form,about twenty-seven miles long by fifteen wide,containing an area of 534 square miles, and a popu-lation of about 140,000. The part of the island which gives its nameto the whole colony is, toward the centre, full of craggyAmong these rocks is a mountain called La Soufri-the Brimstone Mountain, which rises to
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . France, was one of thediscoveries of Columbus. It is of an irregular form,about twenty-seven miles long by fifteen wide,containing an area of 534 square miles, and a popu-lation of about 140,000. The part of the island which gives its nameto the whole colony is, toward the centre, full of craggyAmong these rocks is a mountain called La Soufri-the Brimstone Mountain, which rises to an im-mense height, and exhales^ through various openings, a thickand black smoke, intermixed with sparks that are visible by these hills flow numberless streams, which fertilize the plainsbelow. Such is that part of the island properly called Guadeloupe,or Basse-terre. That part which is commonly called Grand-terrehas been less favored by nature. In 1635 the first settlement was made on this island, by twogentlemen from Dieppe, named Lohne and Duplesis, with about fivehundred followers. Through imprudence all their provisions wereexhausted in two months; famine stared them in the face, when they. 3 816 THE WEST INDIES. resolved to plunder the natives. This, however, did not avert thedreadful alternative. How far the accounts of their horrible sufferingsare to be credited we know not, but it is asserted that the colonistswere reduced to graze in the field and to dig up dead bodies for theirsubsistence. Many who had been slaves in Algiers deplored the fatethat had broken their fetters; and all of thera cursed their was in this manner that they atoned for their crime of invasion, tillthe government of Aubert brought about a peace with the natives,A. D. 1640. The few inhabitants that escaped the calamities they hadbrought upon themselves were soon joined by some discontentedcolonists from St. Christophers, and by Europeans fond of still the pro
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