Barbadoes, one of the Caribbean or Caribee islands and the most eastern of the West India Islands; it is said was first discovered by the Portuguese form whom it received its present name.The Portuguese however made no settlement only furnishing it with a breed of swine for future navigators.
Map: Section from The West Indies, from A New & Complete System of Universal Geography (1817) by Christopher Kelly, published by Thomas Kelly, London.
Text: The New Universal Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary (1798) by the Reverend Clement Cruttwell
Jane Austen References.
Jane Austen’s aunt, Jane Leigh Perrot( nee Cholmeley) was born in Barbadoes.
The Letters:
Letter to Cassandra Austen dated 14th January 1796.
