The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-11-10
olt Jamaica Ginger.

@ y-sspondence of The Journal.
Y ak JAMAICA, Oct. ID. Dawn
W .,s ia the east and the Blue
.,aping out of their beds of
rubling their cloudy blankets
tion as we caught the first
tbis far-famed bit of the
D main. One who is familiar
a,cn treat West sees in Jamaica
..embance to the Black Hills of
-. iu an ocean of lapez -lazuli.
r.t. leaks of the central range are
...r 900 feet high and eternally
.,.o,ds. Their lower slopes and
utled with the most luxuri-
- nj the tropics; and the foot
... .a- Town to the coast in many
.... ke a colossal vandyke pat
ald valleys between, filled
$ and coffee groves. No
ever half so green as the
Of these deep valleys.
eed by innumerable streams
ung down from the upper
ID cauons banked with
MTG bamboos, and a hun
nj the great palm family,
md of springs the abo-
u heir island, you know.
uiards rendered the word
Nu musical fashion-Hah-
remained for the English,
...-.5u the nomenclature and
lrop of romance out of
comes into their prosaic
An it out to Jay may-key,
5, the name Of this small
.... mately associated with its
a. Hae-apple rum, OF with re-
us under the apron in con
5 pungent ginger. Judg-
uoTmous quantities of "Ja-
luj Jamaica ginger which
r- ,eu used in all parts of the
s.l. one would expect to find
ointment here, given up to
production of those useful
i.ad of an extremely ragged
es long by 80 broad, hardly
Aich is yet cultivated. Per
7s Panama Eats and Havana
MeXican filigree work, the ar
sae almost anywhere else than
whose name they bear.
rt Royal, the entrance har-
aM,ron, we beheld the usual
eue-a level stretch between
ST. r lie base of hills, formed in
a use OF centuries by debris
Tu from above; the plain COW
r.. t-1ields, coffee groves and
dotted with villas and tall
sugar factories. Presently
M me into sight-the white
Il dream as seen from a dis
4l in the golden and rosy
morning. Between stretched
tIZht miles long-a natural
Using only few feet above
e, in places larely . yards
awlere more than 50; yet the
- swells of the Caribbean,
a,elessly upon it never wear it
Just beyond the curling
I the sand is dry enough,
.- -row thickly-a long line Of
"1e which appear the masts
,sels anchored ~ the other
.Hr ana apparently mixed up
SECS OF Kingston. AT the tip
ua bank stands Port Royal
He-To Real, so famous in West
r y light house rears its
ualf way down among the
-un is fired from it when
-- lying the eolors of Great
but the banner of any
5 IS not considered worthy
81. ompliment. Treacherous
'. Use out Of the deep water for
some forming low. wooded
Indicated only by the break
YER them; and only local
ee vessel safely through
.H defenses. There are two
5lgh which the lagoon can
Ae'l. The eastern passage,
~ we steamed, runs SO near the
W. anemy's ship would be sent
" ome by the batteries hidden
u 4e and hills, long before it could
.e nuth. The western passage
" lelieate, but that is covered by
- 'aIfs Thus nature and art have
N-'4 lender the position so strong
A 9' anes Kingston was consider
l--'a Eable. Now a. days a Dewey,
.Soa 'l >chley could shell it easily
gu over the spit from the open sea.
f-.l4'Ied the point and the lagoon
Eod' hetore us, the scene was most
@Nl- Directly in front were the
'''4> forts and towers of Port
" "-lhStreets and terraces, roofs and
4'mes and steeples, all sharply
" '6e exquisite transparency of
'+ "a The farther end of the lagoon,
' -s sand bar, lay Kingston-blne
sLH miles distant. Back of
fAt mountains, now piled in
-hadowy gray, streaked with
N' 'Ad tmetbyst by the newly risen