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Kingston and its harbor seen from a hill
range immediately back of the Coastal Plain
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French Liner docking along-side Kingston's
main deep-water pier as Jamaican tradesmen exhibit their straw goods for
tourists
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Kingston Harbor seen from the cactus
overgrown headland near the bay's narrow entrance
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US-bound freighter loads gypsum rock at the
head of Kingston Harbor
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Jamaica's new cement mill viewed across
Kingston Harbor
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The Blue Mountains-thousands of homes are
linked to the main road by a torturous mule trail
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Typical farm plot growing roots and tubers
on the slope, bananas on patches of loose, well-drained soil
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Sewing circle in the mountain village of
Mount Friendship
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At the Mt. Friendship Village Fair, the
results of newly acquired skills are proudly displayed |
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Peasant home overlooking steeply sloping
fields planted with corn, sugarcane, and bananas
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Worthy Park Estate citrus trees- planted in
rows on the uneven portions and can fields on the more level stretches
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Newly-plowed can fields in the foreground
beyond the next season's crop (here perhaps 3 months old)
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The Pimento grows wild over most of the
Limestone Plateau
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Rio Cobre is dammed as it emerges from a
gorge in the Limestone Plateau and its waters are led to the fields
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An irrigated field with 3 month old banana
plants on Bernard Lodge Estate near Spanish town- a corporate owned
plantation
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The cane field shown here is in mid-harvest
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Indian Zebu- the type of cattle shown here
are used to tow cane harvest to the sugar mill
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Shipment of cane from the interior is hauled
by rail to a sugar mill |
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Freighter rides at anchor while sailboats
ferry the jute bags shipside
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Service road cuts through a thick layer of
Bauxite alongside the area cable way over which the ore is transported
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Newly-built company pier on Ocho Rios Bay |
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View of the Alumina plant in which the ore
is reduced to a white powder by a chemical process (Bayer Process)
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Rail terminus, storage silo, and ship
loading alumina at Port Esquivel
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The University College of West Indies on the
outskirts of the Kingston area
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The Senate (Administration) building of the
University College
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