... LIFE IN THE CARIBBEAN. The island of Saba is inhabited by about two thousand settler* of Dutch ancestry who dwell high up above the sea in little settlements ; the largest of them, I,oooft. above sea-level, is called the Bottom, for the reason that its ...

... tt General Santa Anna has WEST INDIES. CAPTURE OF GENERAL MOSQUERA. The West India — ic Steamship Company’s the steamer Caribbean, eae Hoare, re in run from Mersey on Monday, after a very Colon, From Carthagena we learn that the Grand General era was ...

... The old Kearsarge, which sank the Alabama, hes She was wrecked a fow herself come to a violent end without boss of im the Caribbean she fought js all bat thirty years kept the seas a long off Cherbourg, so she bas on the retired list of the deserved an ...

... New Zealand the betulinus. On the Atlantic side there only one laceyielding tree so far known-the Lageta linteria of the Caribbean Islands. Of the Daine tennifolia of Booth America we have not been able to learn of a single specimen, despite carefol search ...

... towards the sea, j bottom. some of the China waters divers have declared they could see clearly depth 24 fathoms, and in the Caribbean Sea objects may ; be made out by eight at even a greater depth. Although, nowadays, tb© electric light haa become available ...

... rapidly passin 6 throaeb the warm Pacibc MM. any Irelrht and passensers to all parts of what now. reeards toe West Indies and Caribbean the Par fast, but which then will be the Near East. The slow saiitoy ship managed carry yellow fever Eurooe well then may ...

... river. (Applause.) There was beautiful stretch water below the Railway Bridge, but It was unknown members of the club the Caribbean Sea. (Laughter and hear, hear.) Some years ago mentioned the matter to Mr. Cooper, and said wonld allow few boats to stapled ...

... Mr. tlawkshaw, the more he was sur- prised at the amazing growth and size of fossil trees Venezuela, on the shore of the Caribbean Sea, be- 4 tween 8° and 16% north lit. and 65° an 70° west and plasts.—Mr. Hawxsuaw seid, he did pot kaow how to account ...

... the geogra; i pical tion of the countries entitled to claim the nefit of them, we will compare the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to an irregular semicircle. Near the centre of the line joining its extremities is the Island of Jamaica, distant about ...

... a large steamer floating bottom upwards, but no mark or letter could be seen so as to lead to her the 8th of April, the Caribbean, from the Clyde to St. John’s, Newfoundland, was lost in the ice off Cape Bollard; crew, part of the cargo were saved. At ...