BOOK II. CHAP. VIII. 17-7 



there being, as it is faid, no perceptible difference in their heat, tafte, 

 and medicinal operation. 



State of the Parifli : 



Annual Produce. 

 Sugar-works. \ Hogfteads. | Oihcr Settlements. 



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This parifh is certainly much improved. The legiflature pafled 

 feveral ads tending to invite fettlersinto it; and a coniiderable part 

 of thofe who at prefent occnpy it, or their anceflors, came hither 

 under their fandion. I have endeavoured to point out the defedls 

 in thofe ads; conceiving, that, if they had been framed upon a 

 more effedual plan, the parifli might by this time have acquired 

 double the number. It is fubjed: to fome local incouveniencies, 

 which lay the fettlers under difficulty j for which reafon, the en- 

 couragements to beginning new plantations cannot be too great ; 

 for thefe inconveniencies will grow lefs, in proportion as it becomes 

 more populous. The great trad of mountain covered with high 

 woods occafions almoft inceflant rainy weather at a fmall diflance 

 inland from the coaft ; and the navigation to Kingfton for fupplies 

 of necefl'aries, or difpofal of produce, is tedious and hazardous, 

 particularly in war-time. Their woods require, therefore, to be 

 laid open ; and a trading town is wanted. By multiplying fettle- 

 ments in the interior diftrid, the firfl: might be gradually effcded ; 

 and the fecond would naturally attend the multiplication of fettle- 

 ments. The foil of the iTiountains, and indeed all the interior part, 

 is extremely well-fuited to indigo ; and this manufadure might be 

 revived here, and carried on with great fuccefs and advantage. 

 But it mufl be the province of the legiflature to pave the way for 

 it, by giving fuch aids of Negroe labourers as will leave little fur- 

 ther to be done, by the new fettlers invited over, than to exercife 

 their ikill in building their works, cultivating the plant, and con- 

 duding the procefs to perfedion. The obtaining a colony of 

 perfons, who are well acquainted v/ith the whole art of managing 

 the indigo, will, I imagine, be attended with no great difficulty, if 

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