,22 JAMAICA. 



The number of births and deaths for feven years to the year 1771 



was as follows : 



Born ■ 988. 



Died 2085. 



Deaths exceed the births — ^'^97' 

 The thermometrical heat of this town is greater than that of Spa* 

 nifli Town, in general about three degrees upon the medium. The 

 air is lefs elallic ; and the water, as I have before remarked, is in- 

 general of bad quality. From what has been premifed, it may be- 

 concluded, that it is not by any means fo healthful. Soine have 

 gone fo far as to compare it to a large hofpital ; and to afiert, that 

 more people die in it in one year than in all the reft of the ifland 

 in three. But this is an exaggeration ; and the town is of late years 

 become much healthier than it formerly was, when the mountain- 

 ous tra£ls neareft to it were covered with woods, which have fince 

 been pretty well cleared and laid open, and the lagoon-water more 

 freely carried off, by cultivating the Scotch grafs, and cutting 

 tlrains near Salt River. The removal of thole annoyances which, 

 meet a ftrangcr'snofe upon entering tiie town in the morning, to-- 

 gether with the enforcing of fome other Hilutary regulations,, 

 might probably contribute to make the air ftill more favourable tO; 

 life ; yet there are many here, whofe conftitutions by long habit 

 are inured, and who attain to a good old age, notwithftanding the 

 inconveniences pointed out ; but, in general, it muft be allowed, 

 that this town is not fo propitious to the health of perfons newly 

 arrived from Europe as might be wilhed. 



SECT. ri. 



St. ANDRE W. 



THIS parifh is bounded on the Eaft by the parifh of POrt: 

 Roval, and part of St. David ; on the Weft, by part of St. Thomas 

 in the Vale, and St. Catharine; on the North, by part of St. Anne, 

 and St. Mary; and on the South, by the harbour and parifti of 

 Kingfton. It is watered with fourteen rivers; the principal of 



which 



