parishes, including Kingston, which has only eight
square miles and consists mainly of the city of
Kingston. The others in the county of Surrey are
St. Andrew, with an area of one hundred and
seventy-five square miles and 35,000 inhabitants;
St. Thomas, in the east, two hundred and eighty
square miles, 34,000 inhabitants ; and Portland,
three hundred square miles and 30,000 inhabitants.
T he figures for population are taken from the latest
authoritative source, and are doubtless somewhat
below the actual number at present. Middlesex
county is divided into five parishes: St. Catherine,
area four hundred and sixty-five square miles, population
61,000; St. Mary, area two hundred and
thirty-six square miles, population 40,000; St. Ann,
area four hundred and eighty square miles, population
46,000; Clarendon, four hundred and eighty-two
square miles, population 50,000; and Manchester,
three hundred square miles and 48,000 population.
In Cornwall there are five parishes: St. Elizabeth,
four hundred and eighty-six square miles and 54,-
000 inhabitants; Westmoreland, three hundred and
eighteen square miles and 49,000 inhabitants; for
Hanover the figures are one hundred and thirty and
30,000; for St. James, two hundred and thirty-four
and 34,000; and for Trelawney, three hundred and
twenty-four and 32,000. T h e parochial division is
for administrative purposes only. T h e Church is
n o t “ established,’ ’ and a comparatively small minority
of the people are attached to the “ English
Church. ’ ’ Since the abolition of slavery the dissenting
sects have done missionary work among the