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<p> The largest of the Windward Is lands, and most southerly of the [[Antilles]] ( <i> q. v </i> .), lies off the mouth of the Orinoco, 7 m. from the coast of Venezuela; is of great fertility, with a hot, humid, but not unhealthy climate; sugar, coffee, tobacco, and cocoa are the chief exports; a source of great wealth is a wonderful pitch lake which, despite the immense quantities annually taken from it, shows no perceptible diminution; inhabitants are mainly French; taken by the British in 1797, and forms, with Tobago, a crown colony; capital, Port of Spain. </p> | <p> The largest of the Windward Is lands, and most southerly of the [[Antilles]] ( <i> q. v </i> .), lies off the mouth of the Orinoco, 7 m. from the coast of Venezuela; is of great fertility, with a hot, humid, but not unhealthy climate; sugar, coffee, tobacco, and cocoa are the chief exports; a source of great wealth is a wonderful pitch lake which, despite the immense quantities annually taken from it, shows no perceptible diminution; inhabitants are mainly French; taken by the British in 1797, and forms, with Tobago, a crown colony; capital, Port of Spain. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_80851"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/trinidad Trinidad from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_80851"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/trinidad Trinidad from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:06, 15 October 2021
Trinidad [1]
The largest of the Windward Is lands, and most southerly of the Antilles ( q. v .), lies off the mouth of the Orinoco, 7 m. from the coast of Venezuela; is of great fertility, with a hot, humid, but not unhealthy climate; sugar, coffee, tobacco, and cocoa are the chief exports; a source of great wealth is a wonderful pitch lake which, despite the immense quantities annually taken from it, shows no perceptible diminution; inhabitants are mainly French; taken by the British in 1797, and forms, with Tobago, a crown colony; capital, Port of Spain.
