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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO |
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TOBAGO , an island in the British West Indies, 20 M. N.E. of Trinidad, in II 15' N. and 60 4o' W. Pop. 18,751. It is 26 m. long and 71 M. broad, and has an area of 114 sq. m. or 73,313 acres, of which about io,000 are under cultivation. It consists of a single mountain mass (volcanic in origin), 18 m. in length, and rising in the centre to a height of 'Soo ft. A great
rainy
interval
industries
cotton
Scarborough (pop. 769), the capital , is on the south
coast
south
425 ft. high, on which is situated Fort King George, now without a garrison. There is a lighthouse at Baedlet Point. Tobago, properly Tobaco, was discovered in 1498 by Columbus, who named it Assumption, and the British flag was first planted in I580. It afterwards passed into the hands of the Dutch and then of the French, and was finally ceded to the British in 1814. Until 1889 it formed part of the colony of the Windward Islands, but in that year it was joined to Trinidad, its legal and fiscal arrangements, however, being kept distinct. Ten years later it became one of the wards of Trinidad, under a warden and magistrate ; its revenue, expenditure and debt were merged into those of the united colony, and Trinidadian law, with very few exceptions, was made binding in Tobago.End of Article: TOBAGO If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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