XXXV111 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



topographical description. Towns, villages, and parishes*- 

 Churches, church-livings, and vestries. Governor or com- 

 mander in chief. Courts of judicature. Public offices. Le- 

 gislature and laws. Revenues. Taxes. Coins, and rate of 

 exchange. Militia. Number* of inhabitants of all conditions 

 and complexions. Trade, shipping, exports and imports. Re- 

 port of the Lords of Trade, in 1734.- Present state of the 

 trade with Spanish America. Origin and policy of the act for 

 establishing free ports. Display of the progress of the island in 

 cultivation, by comparative statements of its inhabitants and 

 products at different periods 220 



APPENDIX TO BOOK 11. No. I. 



General state of agriculture and negro population in the island 

 of Jamaica 263 



APPENDIX TO BOOK II. No. II. 



An account of the number of sugar plantations in the island of Ja- 

 maica in 1772, and again in 1791, distinguishing the parish- 

 es ; also the number in each parish which were sold in the in- 

 terim, for the payment of debts -, the number remaining in 1791 

 in the hands of mortgagees, trustees or receivers ;the number 

 thrown up and abandoned, or converted into other cultivation 

 between the tvjo periods. And the number of nevj plantations 

 recently settled 264 



Historical Account of the Constitution of Jamaica 269 



Documents annexed to the Historical Account 284 



Observations on the disposition, character, manners, and habits of 

 life, of the MAROON NEGROES of the island of JAMAICA, 

 and a detail of the origin, progress, and termination of the late 

 <war between those people and the White inhabitants* ... 337 



