HISTORY

OF THE

BRITISH COLONIES.

BY

R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN, F.S.S.

MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC' AND OF THE MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL' SOCIETIES OF
AUTHOR OF TAXATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE,' OF THE

BENGAL.

'POLITICAL, FINANCIAL, AND COMMERCIAL CONDITION OF THE
ANGLO-EASTERN EMPIRE,' &c. &c.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

POSSESSIONS IN THE WEST INDIES.

'FAR as the breeze can bear-the billows foam-
SURVEY OUR EMPIRE!'

LONDON:

COCHRANE AND MICRONE,

11, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

MDCCCXXXIV.