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DW ARDS’s HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS.

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VOL. I. BOOK III-——PAGE 345.

“"THE soil in the low lands is d/ack, somewhat reddish in the shallow parts, on the hills of a chalky marl, and near the sea generally sandy; of this variety of soil, the black mould is best suited for the cultivation of the cane, and with the aid of manure has given as great returns of sugar in favourable seasons, as any in the West Indies,

the prime lands of Saint Kitts excepted.”

ISLAND OF GRENADA.

VOL. I. BOOK, ILI—-PAGE 376.

“To the north and the east the soil is a brick mould, the same or nearly the same as that of which mention aas been made in the History of Jamaica. On the west

side it is a rich black mould on a substratum of yellow clay.

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