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;Mi-. F V), formerly chief-jufticc of the ifland ; a native, and one 



whofe talents are fo extiaordinary, that it is almoft impoflible for 

 the moft impartial pen to do juftice to them. In this ifland alone, 

 he has attained, by obfcrvation, reading, converfation, and the na- 

 tural acumen of his genius, a more comprehenfive and accurate 

 knowledge of places, pcrfons, and things^ in Great-Britain, Europe, 

 and even throughout the known v/orld, than moft other gentlemen, 

 who have had opportunities of being perfonally acquainted with 

 them, or ot' obtaining the moft intelligent accounts of them. 

 Though he never trod any other earth but this little fpot Jamaica, 

 vet he is intelligent in the manners, arts, fciences, and people (lb 

 far as have been hitherto difcovered), of the whole terreftrial globe. 

 Nature, it is true, endued him with a retentive memory, and fa- 

 culties uncommonly fagacious ; but ftiU it is lignally to his merit, 

 that he has improved every advantage which Ihe gave him ; no one 

 has ftudied more, nor better underftands what he has ftudied, than 

 this gentleman, whom with the ftrifteft propriety, and without the 

 leaft particle of adulation, 1 may aver to be worthy of being 

 efteemed among the firft ornaments of this country. 



His houfc is delightfully placed upon a fmall riling, in the centre 

 of a little vale : at no great diftance from it are two craggy rocks, 

 which peep over the fummits of two hills, and referable the ruins 

 of antique caftles. Immediately below it lies a little garden, filled 

 with orange, cacao, and other trees, for ufe and pleafure. Beyond 

 this are feveral hills, clumps of tufted wood, and natural avenues 

 into the adjacent country. 



At about one hundred paces diftance from this manfion is another 

 of more modern and elegant conftrudion. It confifts of one very 

 large and fpacious room, upwards of fifty feet in length, about 

 twenty wide, and twelve high. This is entered by a door-way at 

 the North end, under a portico of about twelve or fifteen feet 

 fquare, fupported by columns of the Tufcan order; and at the 

 South end is a gallery, out of which the eye, over-looking a fmall 

 garden, is carried along an avenue between two gently-rifing 

 woods, that have a folemn, filent grandeur. Adjoining to the 

 principal room are fmaller apartments, one of which is a library 

 furnifhed with a colledion of the beft authors. The old habitation, 



though 



