Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-14

contrast III Une1r ulDBy rags W bllc utdt
country negresses, in CANDY calico
gowns and gaudier turbans, who come
trooping down to the boat, bringing
lines and poemgranates, monkeys and
paroquets to sell. From their COM
Portable and prosperous appearance it is
easy to believe the popular boast that
Grenada has no beggars and we are
assured that even the swearing crea-
lures of the coal baskets earn enough
by one days labor to keep them in idle
ness and debauchery until the next
steamer comes in, may be week or
two later.
There are carriages to be had in
Grenada and it is we'll to hire one for
doing" the town, though its hills are
SO nearly perpendicular that to climb
them ON wheels is at the peril of life
and limb. Driving up steep streets of
porous black lava, between houses and
walls of volcanic stone, surrounded by
blooming gardens in which black
knots and Jumps scorched by vol
canic fires, appear everywhere amid the
most exuberant vegetation, we ascend
to Richmond Heights to get piano.
ramic view of the situation. From the
fort on top, which now holds neither
guns nor soldiers, you may see the three
BBoc Gas Of Trinidad, and on clear
day can even get-a~Tagn glimpse of
South America, whose nearest point IS
only sixty miles away. The rest of
the prospect is charming-a perfect
paradise of bloom and fruitage, gar
dens and orchards, stone mansions and
plaintain- endowered cottages, and hills
variegated with verdant poppies The
interior of the island is highly pictur-
esque, it's irregular but continuous
chain OF mountains attaining an aver
age elevation of 5000 feet, and branch
ing off into lesser ridges with deep
green valleys between them. Grenada
reminds one of Madeira, her features
being never grand, but always soft and
noble. The mounds of ash and lava.
basaltic boulders and cliffs of horn
blende. porphyery and red sandstone
are washed by innumerable sparkling
cascades and draped with forests of cot
tonwood, giant mombines (hog-plums),
and the whole palm family, and are
alive with chattering monkeys bright
winged birds, gorgeous butterflies and
brilliant Jewel bugs"
To be sure the average temperature
from year to year is So degrees Fahren-
heit, but one does not feel the heat
much. unless exercising too violently,
because ocean breezes are always blow
ing. Earthquake tremblings are fire.
quently experienced, but hurricanes,
which have so often devastated the
northern islands, have never yet ex-
tended so far southwark.
1t is also worth climb to the Gov
eminent House, which is situated ON
ridge at the end of Hospital Hill,
whence the view is that of the Bay of
Naples on one side and of poets
Arcadia ION the other. The prosaic
planters themselves, who are chiefly
Scotchmen not overburdened with SEN
timent, seem to have had such notions,
for they have named the vale below
Tempe, the river Peneus, and the cloven
eminence near it, where the finest
sugar of the. colony is grown, Mount
Parnassus. One morning we drove
out to suburban villa to call upon a
disgruntIed countryman "a Kentuc-
khan. who left the United States in a
huff when the civil war did not turn
out to suit him. He has prospered in
Grenada, despite his politics and the
abolition of slavery even here, and is
the contented possessor of an ideal
home, which stands in green knoll
about 500 feet above the sea. The
winds from the eastern mountains
sweep fresh and cool through his wide
halls and lofty rooms, and the drawing
room windows open upon lawns fra
grant with frangipani bushes, whose
odorous, rose colored blossoms grow at
the ends of almost leaf1ess branches.
There are gardens and orchards,
tennis courts and croquet grounds,
swings for the little ones and bowl
ing alley for children of larger growth,
and perfect riot of the same flowers
we plant at home with many unfamiliar
ones; and behind is wonderful sweep
of green. wooded hills, rising tier
above tier, with cottages and farms in
their hollows.
AS to Georgetown's public buildings,
there are the usual offices of Colonial
officials, custom house and a court
house, and in the yard of the latter two
beneficent institutional whipping
post and treadmill, which the lazy
blacks dread more than anything else
The Church of England is beautifully
situated ON little green plateau, and
has neat spire and excellent clock;
and close by is the pretty parsonage.
The Methodists have big stone meet
ing-house and numerous congrega-
ton, and the Catholic Chapel is a long,
wooden building, in the rear end of
which a rusty bell continually calls
upon the faithful. The stores of
Georgetown are larger and more Eng
lish than anywhere else in the West In
dies, with handsome counters and fine