place of recent design, by which the Rodney statue
stands. Out of town there are attractive groves
and gardens, including a large botanical garden and
acclimatisation forest, and among the heights of the
interior are some delightful resorts. T h e old Port
Royal site used to have the military station, which
has been moved up to Newcastle to save the troops
from fever, and it is still occupied by a fort and
naval station and the appurtenances thereof. The
British Government is at the present time renewing
and strengthening the fortifications and constructing
a dockyard and naval depot within the harbour.
Spanish Town, the old capital, is a decayed place
of about 6000 people, in the midst of a monotonous
plain, which would be arid but for irrigation from
the Cobre River. Port Maria is the largest place
on the north coast, and has about 7000 inhabitants.
Falmouth, at the mouth of Martha Brae River, has
3000 people, and Montego Bay, which is the port of
the maroon district of Trelawney Town, has 5000.
These northern ports have neither deep nor spacious
harbours, and are chiefly engaged in the fruit trade,
though Port Antonio and Port Morant near the
eastern end of the island are the principal exporting
points for oranges and bananas.
Of the 15,000 or 16,000 whites in the island, mostly
English, about five sixths live in and about K ing s ton.
There are a few in the other seaport towns
and at the head of plantations or trading places in
the interior, but the bulk of the population, now
estimated at nearly 700,000, is made up of negroes
with little mixed blood, mostly speaking the E ng