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References
- ↑ "British Virgin Islands".
- ↑ The Dominica Story: A History of the Island, Lennox Honychurch, 1995, p. 130.
- 1 2 Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer, 1857, p. 347.
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