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fertile, removed to them, and have carried their iipprovemcnts to 

 very great peiixfticn. The redor's ftipend is 250/. ; but thl^ bcinsj 

 an cxtenfive and populous parifli, the living is reputed worth 

 600/. per atinnm at leaft, and includes about twelve Negroe (laves, 

 who are appropriated to the ufe of the re£lor for the time l^eiiig. 

 The chapel is diftant about twelve miles further inland, a fniall 

 but neat building, and furnifhed with a good organ. Divine Icr- 

 vice, for the convenience of the parifhioners, is alternately per- 

 formed here, and at the Crofs Church : the quarter-fsffion is ge- 

 nerally held at the Chapel ; and the eledlion of reprefentatives at 

 the Crofs. The hamlet of the Chapel confifls of only feven or 

 eight fcattered houfes. Here are the parifh-barracks ; in which 

 a company of regulars is quartered, and a fmall market is held 

 occafionally by the Negroes of the neighbourhood. 



About three miles from the Crols, the Weftern road pnfles the 

 channel of Rio Minho, which hereabouts changes its name to Dry 

 River, becaufe it is fometimes quite dry, and at other times very 

 broad and rapid. Weflward from this paflage, the road continues 

 nearly the fame diilance, till it approaches Lime Savannah, where 

 a branch diverges from it Northwards to the Chapel ; but the main 

 road continues on to St. Jago Savannah. In the middle of this 

 open fpace is a gentle rifing, which command., a dillant view of the 

 whole; and here is very properly fituated a ftarting-chair, for feeing 

 the races, which are fometimes held, for the Vere Hibfcription- 

 purfe. Upon this fivannah, which is well-docked with cattle of 

 all kinds, are feveral large ponds, befides many fmall fprings and 

 rivulets, wliich never lofe their water, except in times of moll un- 

 ulual and long-continued drowth. The road which branches ott' 

 to the Chapel, after leaving the flat country, afcends among rocky 

 hills, till it reaches Tick Savannah. A great part of this road is 

 truly romantic; and the whole, from top to bottom, for the extent 

 of two miles, is hung on either fide with the deep gloom of lofty 

 trees, ever verdant, and rifmg in wild gradation out of ftupendous 

 rocks and chafms. The favannah receives its name from the river 

 Tick, which runs through part of the vale jut below it. On the 

 top of the favannah is a large piece of v/ater, of confiderable depths 

 the refort of various wild- fowl. Not far fiom hence is the feat of 



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