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Excerpt from A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies That vast assemblage of islands, lying between the two American continents, and stretching over some fifteen degrees of latitude, is known collectively as the West Indies. It IS composed of three dif ferent groups: the Bahamas, lying nearest to Florida, and composed of coral islands and keys; the Greater Antilles, containing the great islands of Cuba, Hayti, jamaica, and Porto Rico; and the Lesser Antilles, or Caribbees. These last were our destination, as they seemed to promise us most profit, in the way of new birds, plants, and strange adventures. Unlike the coralline Bahamas and the primitive Antilles, these Caribbees are volcanic, each island an extinct volcano, shooting abruptly up from the ocean depths; and each mountain clothed from base to summit in a tropical vegetation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.