^o6 JAMAICA. 



From hence the road into Hanover is by a fteep afcent, or rather 

 pafs, of about a mile in length, fo narrow, that two horles can 

 Icarcely go a-breaft. From the llunmit of it, the eye takes in, at 

 once, a rural fccne enriched with every embellifl-iment of art and 

 nature. The landfchape is inimitably fine, and mocks defcrip- 

 tion: canefields, 'villas, paftures, clumps, groves, and rivulets, 

 are promifcuoufly fpread over the whole of its fwelling wavy fur- 

 face. Thefe extend two or three miles from the centre of the 

 prorpe£l, having about one- half filleted, as it were, with a range 

 of hills enveloped with thickets, and a fliaggy mantle of vene- 

 rable trees; the other, ikirted by the Weftern ocean. This diflridl 

 of the parifli exceeds moft others, as well in the configuration and 

 wild arrangement of all its parts, as in the peculiar nature of its 

 foil, which is a kind of fuller' s-earth, foapy and rich ; fo conge- 

 nial to the fugar-cane, that a long and uninterrupted culture feems 

 not in the leaft to have exhaufted, or even impaired, its fertility. 

 The fugars made here moft referable thofe of Liguanea, remarkably 

 fine, and inferior to none in the Weft-Indies. But I (hall not anti- 

 ,cipate further the defcription of Hanover parifli. 



State of the Parifti : 



Annual Produce. 

 Negroes. Cattle. Sugar-plantations. | Hogdieads. \ Other Settlements, 



3734' 9°8i ^9^5 



1740. ^^^55 89-^ 



J745. ^2131 8320 



1761, 15158 



1768, 1 5186 13750 69 I 80CO I 96 



There needs no other proof, to (hew how greatly it has im- 

 proved of late years. It is very capable of being advanced ftill further 

 in its produft, if brceding-ptnns (hould ever be formed in the 

 North-eaft mountains, and the lowland-penns be converted mto 

 fugar-plantations. The road, which has lately been compleated 

 from E>eane's Valley, in this pari(h, to the Bogue in St. James's, 

 is (kilfully conduded and well-fini(hed, and will probably invite 

 the proprietors of land, contiguous to it on each fide, to open and 

 fettle their lots. This road is now the grand communication be- 

 tween 



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