PELL AER Ee BRE LEGS SEBEL TS LIS 5 PSEA I CM atl a) ee a es RE METS iS 
P waperee PERT NS TB OTs a 
The Introduction. 
ck a ee 2S RARE SPOT EACLE: pT a gat, MNaCER gm Types =o 
every day, ‘ts the place where the Governour ufually refides, and 
where the Courts of Juftice and Records of the Hind are keor, 
Ic was very great in the Spaniards time, and then conlifted of “iwo 
thoufand Houfles built all in good order, every Srreet running pa- 
rallel co or elfe piercing the others at right Angles, being broad 
and very long. Ir had four Churches and a Monaftery. ORs fi- 
tuated on the Banks of the Rio Cobre, and has Plains on each fide 
of ic for feveral Miles. Here the Affembly and Supream Courts 
refide, which muft make this place in fome time very confiderable. 
There were here fome few Palifadoed Houfes defended with 
Guns, but now they arervin’d. When the [flind was taken, che 
Soldiers burnt many of the Houfes, neglected the reft, and made ic 
fo much below what it was formerly, that now they reckon its 
ftraggling Houles to be reduced to three hundred. Eicher this Place 
or Old Harbour, were called formerly Oriffan. Here lived formerly 
the Spanish Governor, who had about One thoufand, or Two 
thoufand Pieces of Eight Income, more or lefs, according to his Pro- 
firs by Trade. The Duke of Veraguas, who was delcended from 
Columbus, and whofe Anceftors had been Proprictors of the Ifland 
from the time of Fernand and Jfabella, had tor Anchorage, and 
other dues, about three or four thoufand Pieces of Eight yearly Re- 
venue from this Governor and Hland, as the Spamards intorm’d 
Sir Thomas Lynch. 
Befides thefe places, there are feveral other, as Morant, Withy- 
Wood, &c, but neither are they ftrong, nor very confiderable. 
I was refolved to goto the North-fide of the lfland, and vific 
the Mountains between it and the Souzh fide, to fee what they 
brought forth. Wherefcre I got fome Gentlemen of the Country, 
one who drew in Crayons, a very good Guide, and a fure-footed 
Horfe, and fet out. Having pafied Sixteen Miles Walk  before- 
mentioned, where are fome ot the belt and fecureft Plantations of 
the Ifland, I came to the Magorty, a large Savanna or Plain. I 
met here, growing in great plenty, a fort’of {mall and low fenfible 
Plant, not defcribed by any perfon, If any one movd a Switch 
or Whip over it, as a Pen on Paper, the forms of the Letters ‘re- 
main’d legible for fome time afters. this is defcrib’d hereatter. I 
went on cowards Mount Diablo, at the bottom of which, being 
benighted, I lay. The Horles of our Company were tied with 
Withs, and fed upon fuch Grats as.they conld reach. My Company 
and IT went into a Hunters Hut, and lay on Plantain and Palme 
Leaves all night. Our Sleep was very much interrupted by che 
Croaking of a fort of Tree-Frogs, defcribed hereafter, the finging 
of Grafhoppers, and noife of night Aumals. We got up early - 
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