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Lesser Antilles
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What does Lesser Antilles mean?
proper noun
- The smaller islands of the West Indies, to the south and east of Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.
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Though one was constantly hearing of diminishing trade in the Lesser Antilles, certain questions kept suggesting themselves to me.
Others, struck with the difference of geological constitution between the primitive mountains of the Greater and the volcanic cones of the Lesser Antilles, consider the latter as having risen from the bottom of the sea.
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In this place, the geological basin of the ocean forms, as far as the Lesser Antilles, a cliff of three and a half miles perpendicular in height, and, at the parallel of the Cape Verde Islands, another wall not less considerable, that encloses thus all the sunk continent of the Atlantic.