Entertaining the Islanders

Excerpt from Entertaining the IslandersIn 182 5 Sir Peregrine Wilder was the British governor, and one afternoon driving about the outskirts of the town with Lady Wilder, and feeling very much like God, he pointed to a bottle-shaped swamp that ran in from the harbor between low hills, and said, I think there IS the spot for our botanical garden. Unconsciously he chose the swamp because it was the hardest possible place to start a botanical garden, and that afternoon, as has been said, he felt very much like God and very English.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.