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> tjnu, uilric.i1, incredulous, undcvout, of an ardent and 



K-nt temper, and rxtrcmcly amorout ;" a propensity 

 * V*'' to which, *!u- would have ui to understand, her virtue 

 *ud her pride wrre always S'lperi >r. In a letter written 

 to Mademoiselle de Scudery tome timr before her death, 

 she rxureMrs henelf with great tranquillity on the pro*- 

 pect of her approaching end j and (he patted the last 

 scene with philosophical composure. She died at the 

 ge of tixly-lhrer, leaving behind her many letter* ; a 

 " Collect; : icellaieous Thoughts or Maxim*;" 



and " Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander 

 the Crrat." See Coxe'* Travel* ; I'mv. Hist. ; and 

 Gen. King. See alto SWEDES', (m) 



CHRISTOPHER'S, ST, or ST KITT'S, is one of the 

 Leeward West India islands, and was called Liemuiga, 

 or the Fertile Island, by the Charaibei, by whom it was 

 possessed when ditcovered by Columbus in 1493, who 

 gave it his own Christian name. 



St Christopher's is divided into nine parishes, and con- 

 tains four town* and villages, viz. the capital Basseterre, 

 which contain* above 800 houses, Sandy Point, Old 

 Road, and Deep Bay. The principal fortifications are 

 Fort Charles and Brimstonhill, three batteries at Basse- 

 terre, one at Figtreebay, and a fourth at Palmeto Point. 



The island is about forty two miles in circumference, 

 and its superficial extent i* about. 43,726 acres. The 

 interior part of the island consists of naked precipices, 

 and barren mountains, the highest of which is Mount 

 Misery, which is about 3711 feet high, and appears to 

 have been formerly a volcano. The plains, which are ex- 

 * tremely fertile, are appropriated to the growth of sugar, 

 and to pasturage, about 17,000 acres being devoted to 

 the former, and 4000 to the latter. Provisions and a 

 little cotton are the only other articles of produce. The 

 average quantity of sugar produced annually is about 

 16,000 hogsheads of 16 c.vt. ; and as only one halt of 

 the cane land is annually cut, the produce of each acre 

 is about two hogsheads of 16 cwt. a return which is 

 supposed to exceed that of any other sugar country in 

 the world. The soil of the island is a light and porous 

 dark grey loam, lying above a stratum of gravel, about 

 ten inches deep. From 3000 to 4000 barrels of rum are 

 annually made in the island. 



Among the mountains in the centre of St Christopher's, 

 there is one which contains mines of sulphur, and there is 

 another not far distant from Fort Charles, in which there 

 is said to be a mine of silver. In the south-east part of 

 the island there are very fine salt ponds, which produce 

 most excellent salt : One of these is more than a hundred 

 acres in extent, and i* surrounded with several lesser 

 ponds, and with a number of small hills. 



The following Table contains an accurate statement 

 of the articles exported into St Christopher's in the 

 years 1804, 1805, 1806. 



Table of the Anklet imported into .S< Christopher' i in 

 the Yeart 1804, 1805, and 1806. 



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