aoS JAMAICA. 



its name from a little ifland at the offing, about half a league di- 

 Ihnt from the main land. On the Weft fide of the harbour is a 

 fmall battery of nine guns, fix-pounders, to guard the entrance, 

 and is kept in excellent order; but if, inftead of the battery, a fort 

 had been erefted here, inclofing the barrack, a garrifon of forty or 

 fifty men might hinder any privateer, or fmall iliip of war, from 

 croliing the bar, and landing their crew ; but, whilft it continues 

 open towards the Weft, it is liable to furprizes. Befides the nine 

 guns mounted at the battery, there are two more at a diftance from 

 it, near a fmall tavern, where the main battery was firft intended ; 

 and eleven embrazures completely built. 



North-eaft from this harbour is another fmall bay, commodious 

 enough for fliipping ; on the Weft fide of which is a ftrong bat- 

 tery, of feventeen or eighteen guns, built and maintained at the 

 private cxpence of Mr. J — s, whofe eftate lies contiguous. This 

 battery has embrazures for twenty-one guns ; and thofe already 

 mounted are fix and nine-pounders. 



Not far from hence is Orange Cove, near Point Pedro, a part of 

 Hanover, beautiful beyond delcription. So various, lb pidurcfque, 

 and admirably fine, is the combination of all the detail which 

 unites in forming this landfchape; and the whole fo nicely inter- 

 woven and difpofed ; that it feems almoft impofiible for either 

 painter or hiftorian to give any thing like a faithful iketch of it. 

 Here has nature exerted all her plaftic powers, in Jaying out and 

 arranging the ground-work ; and art has likewife put forth her 

 whole Ikill, in vying with or aflifting her in the machinery, com- 

 pofed of a thoufiind decorations. Wherever the pafting eye de- 

 lights to wander, it meets with a fuccefiion of objefts, throughout 

 an extent of many miles, equally new, ftriking, and lively. In 

 one divifion is icen a wide plain, richly carpeted with canes of the 

 emerald tint, differently fliadcd, and ftriped with fringes of log- 

 wood, or penguin-fence, or, inftead of this border, with rills of 

 cryftal water. In another rifes a high-fwelling lawn, linooth and 

 fertile, whofe gently-doping bofom is embelliflied with herds and 

 flocks, and whofe fummit is crowned with Negroe-villages, or 

 clumps of graceful trees. Here, on a neighbouring hill, is a wind- 

 mill in motion ; boiling-houfcs, and other plantation-buildings, at 



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