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rivers, the principal of which are Rio Rueno, St. Anne's Great- 

 River, Roaring and White Rivers. Its ports are St. Anne's Bay, 

 Dry Harbour [o], Rio Bueno, Ocho Rios, and Runaway Bay. 

 At the former of thefe was the town of Sevilla Nueva, The bay 

 of St. Anne is defended by a reef of rocks, which flretches ahnoft 

 acrofs its entrance, leaving only one fmall channel for the fhips to 

 go in or out. This barrier fo effedually breaks the furge of the fea, 

 that the bafon in which thefliips lie at anchor is at all times per- 

 fedly fmooth : it is likewife fheltered by two points of land, pro- 

 jefling on each fide the bay like the horns of a crefcent. The 

 drift of the waves being towards the Weftward, they form a cur- 

 rent over the breakers which are lowed on that fide of the bay. 

 This current fvveeps through the harbour with a dire£tion towards 

 the fliip-channel, which is on the Eaftern fide; whence it happens, 

 that, when the fea-breeze blows, which gives the water this di- 

 redion, the veffels at anchor here ride with their flerns to the 

 wind. 



The harbour is deep, infomuch that the largeft fhips that load 

 here with fugars, lay their broad-fide clofe to the wharf, which 

 is not many feet in length. It is defended by a battery of twelve 

 embrazures ; and at a fmall diftance are the barracks, elegantly 

 built, in which a company of regulars are ftationed. The town of 

 St. Anne confifts of about thirty or forty houfes, ftraggling along 

 the beach, and chiefly inhabited by fhop-keepers. On the Weft 

 fide of the bay is the parifh -church, a very handfome building. 

 The harbour has fomewhat the appearance of the letter E ca- 

 pital, placed horizontally thus O^'^O? the coafl proje£ling into the 

 centre of it, and making a lemi-circular fweep on each fide. Se- 

 villa Nueva was built upon an ealy eminence, rifing from this cen- 

 tre. The fituation is extremely delightful. By the proje6tion of 

 the land, it commands a very fine and extenfive view of the country 

 , for many miles to the Eaft and VVefl, bounded by diflant moun- 



[o] This place has lately commenced a trailing port, and fome houfes are ere<5led at it as the 

 txordia of a future tovvn. This will probably fucceed, in confequence of a road now forniing 

 from it to Cave River, in Clarendon, the diftance twenty miles, about fourteen of which extend 

 over a woody, uncultivated dillridf. The road, when compleated, u-ill doubtlefs contribute fo the 

 fpeedy fettlement of this trad of country, and has the peculiar merit of opening a communication 

 •iirough thefe almoft unoccupied parts, without croffing one river. 



tains. 



