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furpafTes moft 



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in 



part of the world 



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d commodious harbour can be hardly excelled in any country. But as many of 



the principal people ft 



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in 



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f Port Royal that remained as yet 



deftroyed, this new fettl 



did not go on fo profperouily until the fi 



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had made thei 



refol 



unanimous, and 



fixed 



both 



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in 



of 



d the refidence of the moneyed 



had 



this tim 



ered themf 



from the 



dth 



fufion into 

 thetrad- 



fome from b 



The planters 

 which they were thrown by the late dreadful earthquake; a 

 ing people, who had already a matted wealth enough to fp 

 refolved to pufh the land-intereft, either by becoming planters themfel 

 ing their money to fuch as were already engaged in that way, and wanted neither indu 

 ftry nor management to put it to the beft advantage. From this time the ifland beg 



orl 



d 



be again reforted from all p 



duftry to be revived, and the fettlements to ad 



young 



with the ufual appearance of fuccefs 



d care j to which the great refort of 



whole moderate fortunes could 



therpart, promife 



lm 





raife a foundation for their families fo foon, had contributed much . 



portation of induftrious fervants, whofe heneft labours have frequently raifed confi 



derable fortunes there. Nor did the breaking: i 



tribute lefs towards its advancement, for 



p of fome of our other fettlements 



lofinsrof S 



e> 



which 



the 



treaty of peace foon after concluded with the Dutch, was wholly g 

 about twelve hundred of thofe that were fettled in that colony came to this ifland, 

 and contributed much to the improvement of the fouth-weft parts thereof, 

 called Surinam quarters ever fince. 



The 



when the French 



mber of 



ony was in 



th 



with three men of 



teers, floops> and tenders to the number of 20 fail 



thriving condi 



and priva 



command of monfieur 



de Caffe (then governor of the French fettlements in Hijpaniola,) had, in June 1694, 

 invaded the ifland, where they committed uncommon outrages : and having done all 

 the mifchief they could in fcattered parties, collected their forces and failed to Carlijle 

 Bay, where they landed fourteen or fifteen hundred men on the 1 8th, who continued 

 afhore for fome days ; but were fo warmly attacked by the EngliJJ?, who by this time 

 had muttered a confiderable body of forces, that they were obliged to reimbark on the 

 3d at night, and the next morning failed to windward, putting all the prifoners 



aftiore at Port Morant, The ifland continued to flourish after this time 



d 



700 



ived a confiderable addition by the breaking up of the Scotch fettlement atDarierz 



wl 



people who were fent to that 



they were neceflitated to defert 



beginning of that year, moft of the 



iy bein 



obliged to g 



J- 





where many of their children and defendants {fill continue in the pofleffion of that 

 affluence they had induftrioufly acquired : and from that period we may look upon 



the ifland as a fettled colony, which ft ill 



mbers 



and 



likely to continue in a growing ft 



to improve both in wealth and 



the legifl 



give every reafonable encouragement to beginning fettlers, a g 



body ftill 



of the ifland being yet uncultivated 



(d) In 1673-4. 



part 







4 



CHAP. 





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