VINCENT, ST., one of the Caribbee Islands, is about 40 miles long and 10 broad. The island con tains 84,000 acres, which are well watered. The general aspect of the country is mountainous and rugged, the intermediate valleys being very fertile, and consisting of a fine mould of sand and clay. The subjects of Great Britain possess about 24,000 acres, and nearly the same quantity is held by Cha ribs, the remainder being considered incapable of improvement. In 1800, the island was divided into four parishes, St. David's, St. Patrick's, St. An drew's, and St. George's. It has only two towns, Kingston, the capital, and Richmond, the other places being merely villages at the landing places. The dependent islands are Bequei, containing 3700 acres, Union, containing 2150 acres, Canouane, with 1777 acres, and Mustique, with 1200, beside a small island called Admiralty Bay, with a com modious bay. The small islets are Little Marti nique, Little St. Vincent, and Balleseau, each of which produces a little cotton. The other produc tions of the island are, cinnamon, maize, Lesamum, vanilla, Chinese tallow tree, camphor gum, and sto rax. The botanic garden, long tinder the manage ment of Dr. Anderson, contains 30 acres, of which 16 are in the highest cultivation. In 1783, the island contained 61 sugar estates, 500 acres in coffee, 200 in cacao, 400 in cotton, 50 in indigo, and 580 in to bacco, besides what were occupied in raising plan e, T1.
tains, maize, yams, &c. The following were the number of hogsheads of sugar of 13 cwts. received in different years.
1789, 6,400 hogs. 1805, 17,200 hogs.
1779, 12,120 1810, 18,000 And some years afterwards the quantity was 20,000.
St. Vincents contains an active volcano, called Le Souffrier, which is the highest mountain in the chain which runs through the island. It first dis
charged lavas in 1718; in 1811 about 200 earth quakes were kit, but in 1812 it desolated the island by a tremendous eruption, throwing out torrents of lava and clouds of ashes which nearly covered the island, and injured the soil to such a degree that it has scarcely yet recovered from it. This explosion was preceded, by 35 days, by the total ruin of the city of Carraccas, and violent oscillations of the ground were experienced both in the islands and on the coasts of Terra firma. The ashes fell upon the decks of vessels above a hundred miles distant from the island. The crater of this volcano is a circular chasm, about 2000 feet up the south side of the mountain. It is about half a mile in diameter, and 450 feet deep. In the centre of the crater rose a conical hill, about 280 feet high, and about 200 in diameter, richly wooded with shrubs about half way up, the rest of it being powdered over with virgin sulphur to the summit. On the north and south sides of the base of the cone were two basins of water, one perfectly pure, and the other impreg nated with alum and sulphur. The eruption began on the 27th April, but reached its paroxysm on the 30th. Torrents of lava rushed into the sea, and many houses were set on fire, and many negroes killed, by a stream of stones and fire, which lasted for an hour. The population of the island is 22,000, including 827 whites and 7406 free people of co lour. West Lon. 61° 11'. North Lat. 13° 17'.