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tween the two parifhes, and extremely convenient to both, as the 

 affize- court is held at Savannah la Mar. 



The natural curiofities in this parifh, hitherto difcovered, are 

 but very few; though the want of them is, doubtlefs, compenfated- 

 by the variety of its natural beauties, in point of wood, water, 

 and profpeds. At Ricketts's Savannah, in tlie Weflern diftrift, 

 two mineral fprings were difcovered not long fmce. A gentleman- 

 of the faculty, who tried fome experiments upon them, affirmed,, 

 as I am told, that they were not inferior to the celebrated Geron- 

 ftere fpa ; and that, on being adminiftered, they have proved effi- 

 cacious in the fame diforders which that fpa io fuccefsfully, 

 relieves,. 



SECT. III. 



H A N O V E Ro. 



THIS parifh is bounded on the Eaft by Great River, which di- 

 vides it from St. James ; on the Weft and North, by the fea ; and 

 on the South, by Weftmoreland. It was not formed till the year 

 1723 ; when it was taken out of the laft-mentioned parifli. It 

 contains feveral rivers, but none of them remarkable, fcarcely any 

 rifing more than four miles from the coaft. The principal head- 

 lands are North Negril and Pedro on the Weft, and Roundhill 

 Bluff on the North. Proceeding from Weftmoreland, the firft 

 fhipping-place we meet with is Orange Bay, lying within North 

 Negril, a capacious road, and good anchorage. About a league 

 North from this, lies Green Ifland Harbour. But the chief bar- 

 quadier is at Sancta Lucia Harbour, about ten miles further on the 

 North coaft. Green River is navigable by boats upwards of two 

 miles, and has many agreeable meanders, affording as many dif- 

 ferent profpe6ls. Its banks are cloathed on each fide, either with, 

 groves of plantain, banana, and other trees, or with fugar-canes, 

 to within about half a mile of the mouth, where the breadth- 

 expands to fifty feet at leaft; and it falls over a little fhallow bar 

 into the bay ; here the fides are morally, and have rather a wild 

 and unpleafing appearance. Green Ifland Harbour and Orange Bay 

 are the moft North-weftcrn parts of Jamaica. The former takes 



its 



