BOOK n. CHAP. VII. 79, 



into cultivation. In the South-eaft angle of it is a Negroe town, 

 called Scot's Hall, inhabited by a party of the Maroons, who came 

 in upon terms. 



On the road pafling from Guy's Hill to the Decoy is a quarry of 

 black marble, with white veins. The rock appears confiderably 

 above the level of the road in large raaffes. It has never yet been 

 worked, as it would probably anfwer little other purpofe in this 

 country, except for making lime, or flabs for dining-apartments.. 

 The diftance- from the lea renders the carriage difficult and too ex- 

 penfive at prefent ; but in time perhaps, when the roads are more 

 improved, and this part of the ifland more populous, it may anfwer 

 for exportation, either to Europe or North-America. 



The State of St. Mary : 



Annual Produce. 

 Sugar-works. 1 Hogtlieads. [ Other Settlements. 



49 I 5S°^ I 56 



This pari(h is evidently improving fafl. And we may venture to 



foretell, that the North (ide, though labouring under the misfor- 

 tune of being the laft-fettled, will in time become the moll po- 

 pulous, as it is naturally the healthieft divilion of the ifland. The 

 foil, by reafon of its exceeding richnefs, does not make immediate 

 good returns in fugar ; but the proportion of rum is far greater 

 than on the South fide ; and the excellence of the land alilires a 

 permanent, and perhaps inexhauftible, fertility. 



SECT. IX. 



St. ANNE. 



THE parifh of St. Anne is bounded on the Eafl: by St. Mary; 

 on the Weft, by St. James; South, by Clarendon and St. Thomas 

 in the Vale; and North, by the fea. It is watered with twelve 



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