small
volunteer defence force. The island has direct steam communication with
Great Britain, the United States and Canada, and is also served by the
submarine cable. The three chief towns are St John, Falmouth and Parham.
St John (pop. about 10,000), the capital, situated on the north-west, is
an exceedingly picturesque town, built on an eminence overlooking one of
the most beautiful harbours in the West Indies. Although both Falmouth
and Parham have good harbours, most of the produce of the island finds
its way to St John for shipment. The trade is chiefly with the United
States, and the main exports are sugar, molasses, logwood, tamarinds,
turtles, and pineapples. The cultivation of cotton has been introduced
with success, and this also is exported. The dependent islands of
Barbuda and Redonda have an area of 62 sq. m. Pop. of Antigua (1901),
34,178; of the presidency, 35,073.

Antigua was discovered in 1493 by Columbus, who is said to have named it
after a church in Seville, called Santa Maria la Antigua. It remained,
however, uninhabited until 1632, when a body of English settlers took
possession of it, and in 1663 another settlement of the same nation was
effected under the direction of Lord Willoughby, to whom the entire
island was granted by Charles II. It was ravaged by the French in 1666,
but was soon after reconquered by the British and formally restored to
them by the treaty of Breda. Since then it has been a British
possession.

ANTILEGOMENA ([Greek: antilegomena], contradicted or disputed), an
epithet used by the early Christian writers to denote those books of the
New Testament which, although sometimes publicly read in the churches,
were not for a considerable time admitted to be genuine, or received
into the canon of Scripture. They were thus contrasted with the
_Homologoumena_, or universally acknowledged writings. Eusebius (_Hist.
Eccl._ iii. 25) applies the term _Antilegomena_ to the Epistle of James,
the Epistle of Jude, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, the Acts of Paul, the
Shepherd of Hermas, the Teaching of the Apostles, the Apocalypse of
John, and the Gospel according to the Hebrews. In later usage it
describes those of the New Testament books which have obtained a
doubtful place in the Canon. These are the Epistles of James and Jude, 2
Peter, 2 and 3 John, the Apocalypse of John, and the Epistle to the
Hebrews.

ANTILIA or ANTILLIA, sometimes called the Island of the Seven Cities
(Portugu