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Title: The history of Barbados (electronic resource) : comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island, a sketch of the historical events since the settlement and an account of its geology and natural productions
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), Sir, 1804-1865
Subjects: Economics Natural history
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
Contributing Library: Harvard University
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ed and geologically different from each other. A narrow stripof land runs parallel to the west, with the coast from north to south.We may easily trace it from Bridgetown to almost the extreme end of theisland, where in the neighbourhood of Harrisons a bold bluff pointends it, from whence the coast assumes the rugged outlines whichcliffs of soft material generally present, where encroached upon by thebattering power of the breakers of a stormy sea. From the west or lee-ward coast, the ground rises in very distinct successive terraces to the 1 I measured Mount Hillaby in June 1846 by means of an excellent mountainbarometer of the late Troughton, and likewise trigonometrically from a base line nearLong Pond. According to the barometrical admeasurement, the height of the summitwas 1145 feet, according to the trigonometrical operations I received 1141 feet asthe result. The necessary allowance for the curvature of the earth, terrestrial refrac-tion, &c. are included in my calculations.
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GENERAL OUTLINE AND ASPECT. !> ridge. These terraces are interrupted by ravines (called gullies in the island). If we turn now to the east, an aspect of a quite different nature presents itself; we see before us a mountainous country in mini- nieal form radiate from tin central ridge, and chiefly from Mount llillaby in a north-eastern direction towards the sea-shore; ed and worn by the heavy rains and mountain tor- ■lour, being generally of a dark reddish-brown, here and thane tipped with whitish marl. This district has been represented as rhe alpine country of Scotland, which name has been adopted Mount Hillabv dt>e* not rise exactly from the centre of the island;nir has formed a deep valley, which passes from the eastern t St, Philip through the parishes of St, George and1 in almost a due west direction, and ends at Bridgetown.vides the island into two portions, which 1 will call theid the northernj and of which the northern ia by far the larger,i!er Mount Hillaby with respe

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