Le guide de poche pour les Antilles, la Guyane, le Honduras britannique, les Bermudes, l'espagnol, principale et le canal de Panama . Pic est très beau. La route de Beauvoir activités abandonnées à Hardwar Gap et le buff Buff à RiverValley Bay sur la côte nord de l'île. La ville de Gordon Drive peut être prolongé jusqu'throughexquisite paysages à Mavis Bank, couché dans un superbe amphithéâtre de collines au coeur du quartier qui producesthe célèbre café Blue Mountain. L'expédition à Blue Mountain Peak (7360 ft.) andback prend deux jours, et ne devrait être entreprise qu'bythose qui peut

• Contributeur: The Reading Room / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2AKKK38
• Taille du fichier: 7,1 MB (776,2 KB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 1297 x 1926 px | 22 x 32,6 cm | 8,6 x 12,8 inches | 150dpi

Informations supplémentaires

Cette image appartient au domaine public, ce qui signifie que le droit d’auteur a expiré ou que le titulaire du droit d’auteur a renoncé à ses droits. Les frais facturés par Alamy couvrent l’accès à la copie haute résolution de l’image.

Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.

The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . Peak is very beautiful. The road from Newcastle iscontinued to Hardwar Gap and down the Buff RiverValley to Buff Bay on the north side of the island. From Gordon Town the drive may be extended throughexquisite scenery to Mavis Bank, lying in a superb amphi-theatre of hills in the heart of the district which producesthe world-famous Blue Mountain coffee. The expedition to Blue Mountain Peak (7360 ft.) andback takes two days, and should only be undertaken bythose who can ride or care for hill-climbing on foot.Arrangements for the trip can be made at the offices of theJamaica Tourist Association. Tourists are recommendedto drive to Gordon Town or Mavis Bank early enough toarrive by 9 a.m. There they can be met by ponies, orderedovernight, and proceed by zigzag bridle-paths up themountain side past Petersfield coffee plantation, overGuava Ridge, through Mavis Bank, passing the church onthe left, down Green Valley, over the river, and thenturning abruptly to the left. Magnificent views are. u S t-1 a; JAMAICA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES 185 obtained of Cinchona, Catherines Peak, Content Gap, andthe valley of the Clyde. The night is spent in a small hutat the summit of the Peak. Spanish Town, or St. Jago de la Vega, on the banks ofthe Rio Cobre (the Copper River) (-£? hour from Kingstonby train), was the former capital of the island. Visitorswho prefer to drive to Spanish Town along the broad highroad pass the historic Ferry Inn at the boundarybetween Kingston and St. Catherine, just before the seventhmilestone and the huge silk-cotton tree near by, referredto in Tom Cringles Log, which trunk described as twenty feet through of solid timber ; that is, not includingthe enormous spars that shoot out like buttresses, and end instrong twisted roots, that strike deep into the earth andform stays, as it were, to the tree in all directions. The Ferry Inn, which

Recherche dans la banque de photos par tags

• bo
• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
• bookidpocketguidetowes00aspi