...rehabilitated itself. In the long past both were lauds of pestilential disease with an appalliug mortality.. by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. It was a...were at coast level ; some near marshes and tropical swarnps. Bad water, no drainage, dense crowding, with many unsanitary conditions, produced the usual...

...from its resemblance to a snake, or possibly to its having been supposed to be infested with snakes, was discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. It was colonised by the English in 1650. In 1689 the settlers, having been maltreated by the Irish and French,...

...from its resemblance to a snake, or possibly from its having been supposed to be infested with snakes, was discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. It was colonised by the English in 165o. In 1689 the settlers, having been maltreated by the Irish and French,...

...square miles. Population 33,863. Capital — ROSEAU. Administrator. — .EB Drayton, CMG This Island was discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. It was captured by the British In 1761 and possession confirmed to them by the Peace of Paris. 1763. The French,...

...from its resemblance to a snake, or possibly from its having been supposed to be infested with snakes, was discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. It was colonised by the English in 165o. In 1689 the settlers, having been maltreated by the Irish and French,...