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grounds, is tliought with good reafon to be produftlve of aguini 

 complaints, luterinittent and remittent fevers; from all wliich, 

 the adjacent hills offer a certain afyluin to fuch of the inhabitants 

 vvhofe circumftances admit of their removal. 



The following coiTrparative table may give fome idea of the mo- 

 dern ftate of this parifli : 



SECT. III. 

 St. Dorothy, in the Precind of St. Catharine. 



THIS pariih is bounded on the Eafl: by St. Catharine; Weft, 

 ;by Clarendon ; North, by St. John ; and South, by Old Harbour 

 and the fea. 



The town of Old Harbour contains about thirty houfes, inha- 

 bited chiefly by wharfi 'gers and fa6lors ; this being the principal 

 barquadier for this par, li, St. John, a part of St. Thomas in the 

 Vale, and a part of Clarendon. It had formerly a fmall fort, or 

 rather battery, which has not been thought of confequence enough 

 to fupport in repair ; for th.e harbour, or bay, lying only about 

 feven leagues Weft from Port Royal, and about ten miles from 

 Spanifh Town, notice might be difpatched to eitiier of thofe places 

 in a very fhort time upon any alarm ; and as the fame breeze, 

 which would lerve to carry a fliip of war from Port Royal to their 

 afliftance, would prevent an enemy's vetfel from getting out of 

 the bay, no privateer will dare to venture fo far in as to give the 

 town any annoyance : befides, the entrance into the bay is fortified 

 •with fo many cayes and ftioals, as to make the navigation very ha- 

 zardous to ftrangers ; "and even thofe beft-acquainted with it require 



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