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The muddy one is at the edge of that sunken Caroni Basin.\n\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/figure/A"},{"sha":"fed71d12ed74c818116f4f17c9fdf73db44be1dbc86c8239e30f87f2cc8f303c","caption":"Here's a close-up of the swamp inland from the mud.  We're at the north edge of the town of Felicity.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fed71d12ed74c818116f4f17c9fdf73d","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fed71d12ed74c818116f4f17c9fdf73d","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fed71d12ed74c818116f4f17c9fdf73d","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fed71d12ed74c818116f4f17c9fdf73d","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/fed71d12ed74c818116f4f17c9fdf73d","altText":"Here's a close-up of the swamp inland from the mud.  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These coconuts might be planted.  There's a lot of abandoned farmland on the island.","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f0c703a452612d348be66ac6b19bb217","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f0c703a452612d348be66ac6b19bb217","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f0c703a452612d348be66ac6b19bb217","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f0c703a452612d348be66ac6b19bb217","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f0c703a452612d348be66ac6b19bb217","altText":"Have foreigners been here long?  These coconuts might be planted.  There's a lot of abandoned farmland on the island."},{"sha":"Map+sugar-producing+areas.jpg","caption":"Abandoned plantations, too, in this case sugarcane just about a century ago.\n\n[https://caribbeanhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2018/12/sweet-sorrow-timeline-of-sugar-in.html](https://caribbeanhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2018/12/sweet-sorrow-timeline-of-sugar-in.html)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUkTJD8gtr1_8ASxgSLpugmyKECTSXDGJTqpGTXl-rfqfgoiL7AKvxQK3U4RW-nw2h1a0AW1COLp8L8sRDkU6ssqqjBSzgDuTwhd8CDvI0ITLmd3EWwhNYxe2U1nWDoruG4lbrJk_mI_U/s1600/Map+sugar-producing+areas.jpg","srcSmall":"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUkTJD8gtr1_8ASxgSLpugmyKECTSXDGJTqpGTXl-rfqfgoiL7AKvxQK3U4RW-nw2h1a0AW1COLp8L8sRDkU6ssqqjBSzgDuTwhd8CDvI0ITLmd3EWwhNYxe2U1nWDoruG4lbrJk_mI_U/s1600/Map+sugar-producing+areas.jpg","srcMedium":"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUkTJD8gtr1_8ASxgSLpugmyKECTSXDGJTqpGTXl-rfqfgoiL7AKvxQK3U4RW-nw2h1a0AW1COLp8L8sRDkU6ssqqjBSzgDuTwhd8CDvI0ITLmd3EWwhNYxe2U1nWDoruG4lbrJk_mI_U/s1600/Map+sugar-producing+areas.jpg","srcLarge":"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUkTJD8gtr1_8ASxgSLpugmyKECTSXDGJTqpGTXl-rfqfgoiL7AKvxQK3U4RW-nw2h1a0AW1COLp8L8sRDkU6ssqqjBSzgDuTwhd8CDvI0ITLmd3EWwhNYxe2U1nWDoruG4lbrJk_mI_U/s1600/Map+sugar-producing+areas.jpg","srcOriginal":"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUkTJD8gtr1_8ASxgSLpugmyKECTSXDGJTqpGTXl-rfqfgoiL7AKvxQK3U4RW-nw2h1a0AW1COLp8L8sRDkU6ssqqjBSzgDuTwhd8CDvI0ITLmd3EWwhNYxe2U1nWDoruG4lbrJk_mI_U/s1600/Map+sugar-producing+areas.jpg","altText":"Abandoned plantations, too, in this case sugarcane just about a century ago.\n\nhttps://caribbeanhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2018/12/sweet-so"},{"sha":"0d51f611c9b347ddb25789954f6ff9ab996e8e5217d4a0440c33bcf8d11d83fb","caption":"The sugarcane was grown on estates, some of which are indicated here, including Felicity at the far left.   The most important estate of the group shown here--it eventually took over all the others in the neighborhood--is Woodford Lodge.  (The Chaguanas Tramway carried cane, probably semi-refined, to the coast, but there is no sign of it now, except perhaps a paved drain, nor is there any way to drive or walk to the port that once existed at the mouth of the Rio Chaguanas.)\n\n[https://archive.org/details/dr_composite-map-to-sheets-1-2-map-of-the-island-of-trinidad-on-a-scale-of-15010004](https://archive.org/details/dr_composite-map-to-sheets-1-2-map-of-the-island-of-trinidad-on-a-scale-of-15010004)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0d51f611c9b347ddb25789954f6ff9ab","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0d51f611c9b347ddb25789954f6ff9ab","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0d51f611c9b347ddb25789954f6ff9ab","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0d51f611c9b347ddb25789954f6ff9ab","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0d51f611c9b347ddb25789954f6ff9ab","altText":"The sugarcane was grown on estates, some of which are indicated here, including Felicity at the far left.   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Here it is in 1925.\n\n[https://www.facebook.com/groups/191766699268/posts/10160542973589269/](https://www.facebook.com/groups/191766699268/posts/10160542973589269/)","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Trinidad_rail_map_1925.jpg","srcSmall":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Trinidad_rail_map_1925.jpg","srcMedium":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Trinidad_rail_map_1925.jpg","srcLarge":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Trinidad_rail_map_1925.jpg","srcOriginal":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Trinidad_rail_map_1925.jpg","altText":"When the tram disappeared, a railroad was built.  Here it is in 1925.\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/191766699268/posts/10160542973589269/"},{"sha":"0648661a9d71191cf3bd726101e42d75201682edc7965efc8d94df5a84b943eb","caption":"It's hard to find traces of the system today.  The most obvious is the station (now the bus station) in Port of Spain, but here's a more exotic survivor, Knollys Tunnel, just north of Tabaquite.  Yes, you can drive through it.  It's about 800 feet long.  No lights, but no curves,","width":0,"height":0,"aspect":1.5,"orientation":"landscape","layoutHint":"wide","srcThumb":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0648661a9d71191cf3bd726101e42d75","srcSmall":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0648661a9d71191cf3bd726101e42d75","srcMedium":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0648661a9d71191cf3bd726101e42d75","srcLarge":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0648661a9d71191cf3bd726101e42d75","srcOriginal":"https://wtbl.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0648661a9d71191cf3bd726101e42d75","altText":"It's hard to find traces of the system today.  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