St Vincent. 3 June, 1891. Plateau, and rolling lands, and flat topped highlands, separated from island by perpendicular cliffs into a slope reaching half way up is seen in Dominica, in this island, and in the peculiar Roraima mountains of British Guiana. All these physical features are modelled each other in parts of the long dreamy tract called the dry peninsula of St Vincent. I left Portee bay, and he kindly undertook to collect some geological specimens from the place for myself & sent with the others. The next estate we came to was Rabaka, and saw some unusual tinted land near the road for a sign that we, south passing. The whole surface of the grounds was covered with white and purple "passionable" vine [illegible], and the blaze of colour in the bright sunlight was magnificent. This estate, out many others in the island, belongs to Sir Pater, the head of the firm of S.K. Paterson & Co., an old established banking concern in the island. Old Pater who now lives in England has acquired about half of the cultivable estate in St Vincent. Many be abandoned during the sugar crisis. On his behalf cultivated, and in all he reduced the pay of his managers and overseers to such a sum that they can barely make both ends meet with their salary. He still persists this system, St Vincent. 3 June, 1891. clean about £40,000 sugar. At least so I am told. And the money goes as of the island to enrich the board of an old man that names his employees have a good word to say from Of course all this creates a huge monopoly the evil effects of which here, it is dilutive by many, kept back the prosperity of the island immensely. The contrast to Grenada is great. In St Vincent the proprietor suffers, and no man is all supreme. In Grenada the proprietors are many and no man is supreme. St Vincent sticks to the old cultivation and is poor. Grenada has gone in for other products and is rich. At Rabaka there is a jetty belonging to S.K. Pater, and some of the produce of the long line of Pater estates is shipped at this place. The sea however, permits to roll in greater than in Bengalton and it must be impossible to ship anything in rough weather. By the way on our ride although Batiboro, Bragg Hill and Tawana estates, all five properties belonging to Sir Pater. From Morone and I were especially struck with the splendid stonework of the buildings forming the sugar factories on these properties. The aqueducts carrying the water to turn the mills has carried across the mill yard and over the road for long distance on magnificent stone arches,