BOOK II. CHAP. IX. 205 



annoyance can be given from it in cafe it fliould beclofely befiegcJ. 

 The window-fhutters are of bullet-tree-wood (fo called, becaufe an 

 inch-board of it is bullet-proof); but, if thefe windows are to be 

 opened in the time of attack, in order that the garrifon may fire 

 upon their enemy, which they could not otherwife do, for want of 

 loop holes, their bodies muft neceflarily be much expofed, and the 

 ftiuttcrs of no ufe to Ikreen them. The roads, for three milqs after 

 leaving Albany, afford a profpeft delightfully variegated. Towards 

 the North, the late commodore F — rr — ft's plantation, and feveral 

 others, are feen flretching along the fkirts of the Hanover Moun- 

 tains, which arejufl behind, and feem to over-hang them. The 

 ground towards the South appears uneven, poor, and of a reddifli 

 foil; full of brakes and irregular clumps of trees, and uncultivated ; 

 ferving only to feed a few young cattle that graze fcantily among the 

 bufhes. Point Negri! lies about three or four miles Weft of Al- 

 bany. The morafiy land embracing it renders the air of the ad- 

 jacent eflates damp and unwholefome. Eaftward, the view is ter- 

 minated by another range of mountains, covered with a foreft of 

 mahogany and other gigantic trees. Between thefe different moun- 

 tainous barriers lies the road to Hanover, through the fertile glade 

 called King's Valley, which exhibits a lively and pifturefque fcene. 

 Though not above half a mile acrofs, it is inimitably contrafted 

 throughout. It abounds with delicious fprings and cooling rivulets, 

 refrelhing the land through which they glide. The lofty mountains 

 on either fide twice every day extend their grateful fhade over the 

 whole, and veil the richly-cultivated fields below from the fun, 

 prelerving the canes from taint in times of drowth, to which the 

 champaign lands, in many parts of the ifland, are much expofed. 

 There are, befides, in this fequeftered vale, two or three Imooth 

 fugar-loaf hills, that rife to confiderable elevation, and whole 

 ever-green and (loping fitles yield palturage to numerous herds of 

 cattle. 



The whole machinery of this charming fpot is highly pleafing ; 

 for, abftra£led from its natural beauties, it is decorated with fome 

 handfome plantation-houfes ; at one of which (called Glafgow) 

 fituated on a riling ground, is a battery which was of great ufe in 

 protefting the eftates here during the Negroe rebellion. 



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