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WINDWARD ISLANDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 716 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WINDWARD ISLANDS , a See also:

group and See also:colony in the See also:West Indies. They consist of the See also:British See also:island of St See also:Lucia, St See also:Vincent and See also:Grenada, with a See also:chain of small islands, the See also:Grenadines, between the two latter islands. They are not a single colony, but a See also:confederation of three See also:separate colonies with a See also:common See also:governor-in-See also:chief, who resides at St See also:George's, Grenada. Each island retains its own institutions, and they have neither legislature, See also:laws, See also:revenue nor See also:tariff in common. There is, however, a common See also:court of See also:appeal for the group as well as for See also:Barbados, composed of the chief justices of the respective islands, and there is also a common See also:audit See also:system, while the islands unite in maintaining certain institutions of See also:general utility. The Windward Islands, which, as a See also:geographical See also:division, properly include Barbados, derive their name from the fact that they are the most exposed of the Lesser See also:Antilles to the N.E. See also:Trade, the prevailing See also:wind throughout the West Indies.

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