The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12
A GARDEN sPOT IN THE OCEAN.
Some Facts About Jamaica in Mid
winter,

winter.
The following is an abstract of a graphic
description of Jamaica, written by his >ex-
cellency the governor, Sir Henry A. Blake,
and published in the Nineteenth Century
magazine: Here, where even the tropical
heat of the plains is assuaged by the sea
breeze that blows by day and the cool
land breeze that flows down from the hills
at night, the newcomer may choose his
climate through the sub-tropical tempera-
ture of the lower ranges to the bracing air
of the higher mountains. Where 1 now
write. at the botanical station of Gin
chona, situated at an elevation of 5000
feet, on one of the southern spurs of the
Blue mountain range, thrust boldly out
into the great valley of Yallah dividing
the Blue mountains on the north from the
Port Royal hills on the south, the temper
allure in the middle of July is 60 degrees
at midday, and the climate is that of an
early English summer.
In the evening we find cheerful wood
fire comfortable to sit around, and at
night, with a temperature of SO degrees
pair of blankets is necessary.
In the close cropped sward in front of
the mouse, smooth and green as an English
lawn, are found beds of roses, petunias
fuohsias, verbenas and geraniums, while
the mountain sides are gay with masses
of beautiful pink and white begonias and
here and there fringed with English gorse
strawberries. and the woods around are
fragrant with the scent of flowers.
"A floral farm for the preparation of per-
fumes would afford pleasant and remun-
erative occupation for the ladies OF a FAM
lily"
The Bishop Of Winchester. in Good
Words" says: The first thing is to have
health, and the second is to keen it,
and the third is to protect it. Then the
question arises, 'wherN shall we go?
All things consideration variety infer
ri
promising that there is no constitutional
objection to heat, and that the stay in the
tropics is not too much prolonged l can
recommend nothing better that a. voyage
to Jamaica"
The scenery of Jamaica, between the
months of November and April is thus
described by Sir A. Alison in his His
tory of Europe:" In the midst of these
clear waters, rarely disturbed at this sea
son OF the year by a ruder breath than
the gentle northeast trade. an archipeI-
ago of perfumed islands is placed. which
repose like baskets of flowers on the tran
quill surface of the ocean. Everything in
these abodeS appears to have been pre-
pared for the wants and enjoyments of
man."
Rev, Charles Kingsley in his AT Last -
speaking of the same season of the wear
writes ''It was easy in the nresence Of
such scenery to conceive the exaItation
which possessed the souls of the first dis
they seemed to themselves to have burst
into Fairy-Land. With such a climate
such soil, such vegetation, such fruits
what luxury must not have seemed possi,
BILE to the dwellers along those shores
One could live here said Columbus, for
ever "
Lord Brassey, in describing visit to
Jamaica in the Sunbeam" saws: "A
cruise to Jamaica cannot fail to impress
on the memory, in unfading colors the
ioveliest pictures of natural beauty, which
it is possible to conceive
The population of jamaica is 100000
The island is IA miles long and 40 miles
wide.
Six excursions will be run to Jamaica
by the United States mail steamships of
the Plant line, leaving Port Tampa Jan
u and 81, Feb. IA and g. March Is and "a
; "A new form of advertising has made
its appearance in New York A some
what Anticipated specimen of a horse is
provided with two large wooden flaps
which hang on either side and one covers
the animals forequarters. On these boards
advertising notices are displayed in big
letters. A small boy. wearing an old uni
form, rides the horse, an the outfit at
tracts much attention. This is probably
the hrst authenticated case in this colln-
try IN WHICH the horse has served as a
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