The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . THE RODNEY MEMORIAL, SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA The guns flanking the statue were taken from the Ville de Paris. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, TRINIDAD This palatial residence of the Governor overlooks the Savannah JAMAICA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES 189 Domini MDCCXII and was rebuilt in 1714. The presenttower was added in 1817. This, the oldest cathedral in theBritish Colonies, has many monuments, of which the mostnotable is one by Bacon, erected by the people of Jamaicato the Earl and Counte
The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . THE RODNEY MEMORIAL, SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA The guns flanking the statue were taken from the Ville de Paris. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, TRINIDAD This palatial residence of the Governor overlooks the Savannah JAMAICA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES 189 Domini MDCCXII and was rebuilt in 1714. The presenttower was added in 1817. This, the oldest cathedral in theBritish Colonies, has many monuments, of which the mostnotable is one by Bacon, erected by the people of Jamaicato the Earl and Countess of Effingham, who died in 1790. On a pyramidal obelisk of marble is an urn decorated withfestoons of flowers and the arms of the Earl of are represented the Chancellors seal of the island, themace and sword, and the scales of Justice. On one side of themonument, supporting the urn, is a figure emblematic of Jamaica,bearing the crest of the island on her zone ; on the other side aboy holding an olive branch in his hand resting on a cornucopiafull of tropical fruits, while his right hand rests on a shield onwhich are blazoned the arms of Jamaica, which are heraldicallydescribed argent on a cross gules, five p
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