6o JAMAICA. 



SECT. VI. 

 CLARENDON 



IS one of the largeft, healthieil, and beft-fettlcd parifties in the 

 whole ifland. It is bounded on the Eaft by the parifhes of St. Do- 

 rothy and St. John ; on the Wef}, by St. Ehzabeth ; on the North, 

 by St. Anne ; and on the South, by Vere, and a part of Old Har- 

 bour Bay. It is watered with no lefs than fifteen rivers, befides 

 innumerable rivulets and fprings. The names of thefe rivers are, 



Green River, Ballard's, Rock, and 



Thomas, Pindar's, Craal; 



Tick, Jiiiiii cle Bolas, 



whofe feveral ftreams fall into the Minho. There are likewlfe. 



The Cave, Milk, 



Pedro, Baldwin's, and 



Croft's, Bower's. 



The capital of thefe is the Minho, which takes its fource about 

 twenty-fix miles, in a direft line, from the fea on the South fide, but 

 with its various meanders makes a courfe of fifty and upwards. I 

 do not know if the fhort river fhould be added to the lift. It lies 

 exa£lly on the boundary which divides this parilh from St. Anne. 

 It is a large body of water, which appears in a hollow, or dell ; and, 

 after running witli great violence a little way, fuddenly difappears, 

 probably to give birth to another river below ; but its fubterraneous 

 direftion has not as yet been difcovered. The Cave, Pedro, and 

 Croft's rivers, are alfo remarkable for hiding themfelves under 

 ground, after a courfe of fome miles above. The river Minho- 

 was probably fo called after one of the fame name in Portugal; 

 for it is to be obferved, that the firft fettlers from Europe were 

 a mixture of Spanifli and Portuguefe. It is from this reafon that 

 we find in the ifland mountains and rivers named in both thefe lan- 

 guages. But the name was applied with great propriety to this 

 river, as there are many circumltances to induce a belief, that the 

 Spaniards opened and worked a gold mine fomewhere near its 



banks. 



