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tidy-light and a favourable land-wind to carry them out. 'i'he inner 

 or Eafl harbour is an inlet, or cul ik Joe, turning near fix n:i!cs 

 within land, and fo flieltered \d\\ all fides, that fliips have rode here 

 with perfeft fafety in the moft furious hurricanes. On this account, 

 the Spaniards moored their galleons here during the flormy feafon ; 

 but the channel leading to it is now fo choaked with mud, that 

 loaded (hips cannot get in or out ; for which reafon, the merchant- 

 veflels,- which come to take in cargoes at this port, lie further out 

 in the bay, wdiere veffels of almolt any burthen may have fufficient 

 depth of water and a fine anchoring-ground. 



In the offing of the bay is a very good fifliery, chiefly for fnap- 

 pers, which form a principal part of lubiiftence for the inhabitants 

 at Old Harbour. At certain times of the year there is alio great 

 plenty of turtle caught upon thC'Coaft. A company of foldiers is 

 quartered here in barracks, built at the expence of the parifli. As- 

 this place contains nothing further of note, I fliall pafs on to the ' 

 market, .which is difiant about two miles inland, and is fo called 

 from the Negroe market, held here regularly every Sunday fore- 

 noon, for poultry, corn, eggs, and other fmall articles ofprovifion. 

 It is an iniignificant hamlet of about twelve houfes, confiflinp^ of 

 taverns and (hops, and diftant about one mile from the parochial 

 church, a fmall building, clofe by which is the redtor's houfe, 

 fituated ona rocky eminence, which commands an agreeable pro- 

 fpe'3: of the fea and adjacent country. From the piazza of this 

 houfe the eye takes in a view of great part of St. Catharine and Li- 

 guarea, and the fea from St. Thomas in the Eafi: to Portland Point 

 in tb.e Weft. But the flat part of St. Catharine, St. Dorothy, and- 

 Clarendon, appears to be in a manner a continued wood, from the 

 multitude of opopinax trees which are luffercd to grow in the 

 hedge-rov.?s and middle of the paftures; and- this detracts greatly 

 from the beauty of the landfchape.^ The fripend annexed to this 

 redory is 200/, per annum; and, the parilh not being very po- 

 pulous, the whole income of tlie living is probably under 400/. 



The only river in this pariih is the Bhick or. Bridge river, which 

 takes its rife in a fmall morafs about feven miles from the harbour.. 

 The excelleiicc of its water lias already been mentioned.- It crofles 

 the great \Veuc;;n road which lead? from Spaiurn Town, to the' ' 



leeward - 



