committees. In 1712, Sir Christopher Codring-
ton bequeathed two valuable estates to found a
college, and the first buildings were completed a
few years later in an attractive location some fourteen
miles from Bridgetown. Codrington College
ranks high among colonial institutions of learning.
There are four scholarships with an income of ^175
each, tenable at either Oxford or Cambridge, under
the direction of the board of education. The school
system of the island is well supported and efficient.
Elementary instruction is quite general, and the
people are, as a rule, well ordered. T he English
Church is partly supported by the government and
includes by far the larger proportion of the inhabitants,
though there are dissenters, Roman Catholics,
and Jews, with places of worship. Barbados is an
English bishopric which formerly had a wide jurisdiction,
but one has since been established at A n tigua
and another at Trinidad. T he judiciary includes
a court of chancery, a court of admiralty, and one of
sessions (with criminal jurisdiction). The annual
revenues amount to about $750,000.
Nearly all the trade is centred at Bridgetown, and
in and about it'is gathered a third of the population
of the island. It lies along the curved beach of
Carlisle Bay for two miles, at the foot of a hill upon
whose slopes are many gardens and villas. I t is
well laid out and substantially built, having been
twice nearly destroyed by fire in times past, and has
a spacious market-place and a fine public square
with shade trees. T h e government buildings are
near the sea, and a short distance away are the