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Cradle of American New World history [[inserted]] from the time of Columbus to this very day (last world wars) [[/inserted]]
There the French, Bnglish, and Dutch fought many a [[strikethrough]] bitter battle (has fought)on land and sea [[/strikethrough]] bitterly contended  for the possession and repossession of this or that island many times over.  St. Lucia is said to have changed hands 14x.  Reminiscent today of those troubled times is the babel of place names that greets the ear rather meets the eye on charts

On English St. Vincent we have

on Bequia

It was the Dutch on Statia that first [[acknor?]] by salute the sovreignty of the infant U.S. Martinique Diamond rock

Eng families on Saba.  Eng place names.

Isles of Paradise so dubbed by many a yachtsman wher referring to climate and not the disastrous hurrican season then it can be quite otherwise cast out of garden of Eden

Sand covered [[?]]   
notes p. [[circle]] 51 [//circled]] under [[?]] 21 (cont'd) marigot B.