Excerpt from The Handbook of Jamaica for 1895: Comprising Historical, Statistical and General Information Concerning the Island Ir will be observed that in the present Edition of the Handbook of Jamaica the Chronological History, which had been continued for the usual term of a Governor's Administration, has been merged in the Historical Sketch, matters of merely ephemeral interest being omitted. There willalsobe fonndan interesting article from the pencf Mr. Frank Oundall, on the Books relating to Jamaica. 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.