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trees in plenty. A German baker gave us lodging, 

 and with the wife of a sometime Serjeant of the 6oth 

 regiment we found board at a Spanish dollar a day. 



There are several churches at Augustin, but almost 

 all of them in ruins. One near the north end of the 

 town, in a quarter where formerly certain Indian 

 families were more or less settled, to whose use and 

 edification the church was devoted. Of a German 

 church there stands now but one wall ; and the Span- 

 ish cathedral church, of St. Augustinus, which was 

 also the principal church of the English garrison and 

 residents, is likewise on the point of falling in. The 

 Spaniards, on their reoccupation, will find enough to 

 do in purging and consecrating it, and in burning all 

 the heretics who lie buried thereabouts. Not far off 

 an association of negroes have a cabin, in which one 

 of their own countrymen, who has set himself up to be 

 their teacher, holds services. They are of the sect of 

 the Anabaptists. 



There is a small, but well-kept and decorated chapel 

 belonging to the Minorcans who, after Florida fell to 

 Great Britain, were brought hither at the expense of 

 the government, for the peopling and better cultiva- 

 tion of the land. Although almost all of them left 

 their country in the extremest poverty, the greater part 

 have here risen to good circumstances through their 

 industry and frugality, qualities they are said to 

 possess in a high degree. Among these Minorcans the 

 men dress themselves after the English fashion, but 

 their wives retain their own peculiar head-dress and 

 their pleated braids. It was hoped the Minorcans 

 would introduce into this province the culture of the 

 vine and of the silk-worm, but they have shown no 



