Barbados

or BARB A DOES, (bar-bā'duz,) the most E. of the W. India Islands, belonging to Great Britain, Windward group, in the Atlantic, 105 m. E. of St. Vincent; Lat. 13° 4' N., Lon. 59° 37' W. First colonized by the British in 1635. Circumference 55 m. Area, 166 sq. m., most of which is under cultivation. C. Bridge town, the residence of the British governor of the Windward Islands. Pop. 152,727. [s. 73]