,54 JAMAICA. 



famine or their own hands, than fall into the power of fo mercilefs 

 an enemy. The greater part of them therefore retired into caves 

 and fubterraneous privacies among the mountains -, where they mi- 

 ferably perifhed, leaving a fad, though glorious, monument to fu- 

 ture ages, of their having difdained to furvive the lofs of liberty 

 and their country. 



State of Port Royal Parifli : 



Annual Produce 

 of Sugar. 

 Negroes. Cattle. ' Sugar-works. | Hogfiieads. ] Settlements. 



i734j 154S 106 



1740, 1546 I5S 



174-5' ^^^5 35 



1761, 1203 



1768, 1432 170 ^ \ ^^ \ _ " 



We have here a glaring proof, that this parifh is declining very 

 faft, and perhaps irreparably ; fince there appear no means of' 

 putting the town into a more thriving way ; and the inland part 

 of the parifli is too rugged or fleep to admit of any confiderable 

 fettlements, while the trad adjacent to the coafl: is rather fterile, 

 and deftitute of a good fhipping-place. The only barquadier is 

 near the mouth of Bull River, where none but fmall veflels can 

 lie; and the anchorage is unfafe, on account of the opennefs of 

 the bay. 



SECT. IV-. 



St. David, in the Precinft of St. Thomas in the East. 



THIS parifli is bounded on the Eafl:, by St. Thomas in the 

 Eaft, and a part of Portland; on the Wefl:, by Port Royal parifli, 

 and a fmair part of St. Andrew; on the North, 'by St. George; 

 and on the South, by the Tea. It is watered by fix rivers, the prin- 

 cipal of which are, Collier's, Vavafor's, and Yallah's. .The latter 

 takes' its firft fource in the Blue Mountains, and, after a mean- 

 drlng courfe of twenty-five iiiiles, falls into the bay of the fame 

 name, a fmall diftance from the' difcharge of the others. This 

 parifli was formerly populous: in the year 1673 it contained 



eighty 



