INTERESTING ISLAND
Separated.from:.the West Indian Island of. ■. St." Kitts, an .island which boasts of being the'oldest:.British .possession in that quarter of the globe, by a channel called the Narrows, is the small island of Nevis, seven miles long by five, broad. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493, and colonised by the English from St. Kitts in 1628. The chief town of Nevis is Charlestown, in the parish church of which a notable ceremony was performed in 1787 (writes a correspondent :to-the. Newcastle "Weekly Chronicle.")! An entry in the parish register records: "1787, Slareh 11, Horatio Nelson, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's ship Boreas, to- Frances Herbert Nisbet, widow." The bride was given away by the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1929, Page 13
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122INTERESTING ISLAND Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1929, Page 13
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