OF THE WEST INDIES. BY MRS. HENRY LYNCH. AUTHOR OF MILLIE HOWARD," "THE RED BRICK HOUSE, " SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, FLEET STREET; AND B. SEELEY, HANOVER STREET, LONDON. MDCCCLVI.. PREFACE BY THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF JAMAICA. 66 In an age of more than Athenian curiosity, an age in which authors and readers are alike intent on telling or hearing some new thing," it is remarkable that of a field so distinguished by novelty, and so exuberant in beauty, as that afforded by the scenery of the West Indies, very little has been investigated and less made known. While the pencil of the artist and the pen of the tourist have, year after year, brought vividly to the public eye the most striking features of countries far less beautiful and sublime, the "Wonders of the West Indies" have been, like the lofty peaks of their enchanting islands, shrouded in their native mist, or have at best had |
