ST. LUCIA: HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE. BY HENRY H. BREEN, ESQ. (THIRTEEN YEARS A RESIDENT IN THE ISLAND.) LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1844. Or all the insular possessions of Britain there is none so little known as St. Lucia; and while each has repeatedly attracted the attention of the traveller and the historian, this Island has either not been noticed at all, or has been dismissed with a cursory glance. Amongst recent writers on the West Indies, Mr. Mackenzie's sphere of observation appears to have been confined to Hayti; Colonel St. Clair's to Demerara and Berbice; Mrs. Carmichael's to St. Vincent and Trinidad; Colonel Flinter's to Porto-Rico; Dr. Madden's to Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Jamaica; Sir Andrew Halliday's to Barbados, Guiana, Trinidad, and Tobago; Mr. Turnbull's to Cuba; and the Rev. Mr. Philippo's to Jamaica. Neither of these writers has the slightest 514451 |