^o ; A M A T G A. 



coition. But this wa'iits proof. Several of the fame fpecies are 

 affirmed to have been feen in otlicr parts of Africa, in Borneo, in 

 India, and New Guiney. 



I fliall concUide the account of this parifli with a table, as 

 before : 



Annual Produce of Sugar. 

 Sugar-plantations. | Hogfheads. | Oihci Settlements. 



12 I 700 I 56 



Taking the lifts of 1768 and 1740 into comparifon, the decreafe 

 of cattle appears to be 807, although no new fugar-plantations 

 were formed within that time. And this falling-off, I am afraid, 

 muft be referred chiefly to the introdu£lion of foreign cattle, for 

 fupplying the markets and fquadron: this proved a difcouragement 

 to many perin-keepers in the parifli, and occafioned their deferting 

 it ; fo that feveral penns, which formerly were capital breedlng- 

 pfinns, are at prefent in wafte. 



SECT. IV. 



St. J O H N. 



This parifti has for its boundaries, on the North, St. Anne ; 

 on the South, St. Dorothy ; on the Eaft, St. Thomas in the Vale ; 

 and on the Weft, Clarendon. The whole of this parifli is oc- 

 cupied with hills, mountains, and vallies. It is watered with 

 four rivers, of which the Rio Montando, or Mountain river, is 

 the principal; and with the feveral fprings and ramifications 

 which contribute to form them. The ibil in general is fertile, 

 even on thehigheft ridges. It abounds with fine timber; and the 



vales 



