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others lie neglected in the eafy beginning of an undiftinguifhed remittent, until the 

 diforder gains beyond relief. Et inde tantorum hominum fata. 



I fhall now endeavour to give fome account of fuch of the natural curipfities of 

 this Ifiand, as can't be fo properly introduced in the following parts of the work ; 

 which, tho' but few, and not often noticed, feldom fail to raife both our attention 

 and admiration, when duly confidered. The moft remarkable among thofe are, 



i. The Water-fall in Mamee River, a little above Bull-Bay, in the parifh of 



Port- Royal. 



2. The Cafcade, and, 



3 . The Grotto ; both in the parifh of St, Anne's. 



A. 



The Fogs in the parifh 



of St. ^Thomas in the Vale> 



We mall now give fome account of each. 



The Water-fall, or Cataract in Mamee River, (one of thofe that takes itsfource far 

 back among the blue mountains, and by a moderate ftream, continues its agitated 

 courfe by various windings, to thofe hills immediately above that fandy fhore 

 within Bull-bay,') where, between two neighbouring rocky and barren hills, its waters 

 have afuddenfall of near two hundred feet; whofe direction is altered about the middle 

 fpace, by the volume of a huge protending rock, that extends from the fide of the 

 adjacent weftern precipice ; which divides and agitates the ftream with fuch violence, 

 that the narrow fpace between the hills below, is filled with clouds and vapours 

 that reflect an admirable fucceflion of fhining Iris's, while the fun continues to 

 dart its rays about the ftream ; and hence the foaming fluid continues its varioufly in- 

 terrupted and divided courfe between thofe barren hills to the thirfty plain below j 

 not an ignoble reprefentation of Virgil's Amfanffius, 



Ubi medio fub nubibus alt is 

 Urgit utrumque latus montis, medioque fragofus, 

 P)at font turn /axis, et tor to vertice tor r ens. 

 Hie fpecus horrendum, Sec. 







Virg. Lib. viii. 564, &c. 



under 



This place is rendered yet more romantic, by that fpacious cave that runs 

 the brow of the eaftern hill above the fall. 



The Cafcade is ftill more curious, and lies in the courfe of that branch of Rio 



hich, (after having made its way many miles under ground,) rifes a-new in 



Alto 



hills immediately above, and continues its courfe between roaring 



pi 



tion, and Mendjys Bogue, in St. Anne 



ful contrivance of 



give a fatisfactory notion of this wonder 



I muft firft inform the reader, that moft of the h 



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tha 



part of the Ifiand are chiefly compofed of ftalactic matter 



waters oozing through the rocks 



whofe eafy fo 



fo charged with particles of this 



ture, that they readily incruftate bodies depofited for any con fiderable time in their 

 more open and lefs agitated courfes -, and, as this river rifes at a confiderable diftance 

 from, and above the level of the fea ; it runs down a more moderate declivity between 

 the two adjacent hills, whofe intermediate fpace is in fome parts more, and in others 



fs contracted : In one of thofe more extended fp 



anchovy pear 



g waves in its lefs rapid defcent 



has planted a moft 



which the river fpreads 



grove of 



(b), whofe fpreading roots intercept the fhallow ftream in a 



fand different places and directi 



ftill inclining 



to, 



receding from each 



other, as chance or nature directs their growth : The water thus retarded, foon beg 

 depofite its weighty load, which time has form'd into thofe crufts and various fhel 



that advancing years have fpread 

 for which it is now fo much admired 



thofe beautiful banks, and gradual platforms, 

 and whofe natural beauty is ftill inriched by 



(h) See the nature and growth 





vegetables. 



thofe 









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