Other Settlementi, 



2S 

 Confidering Hanover as a modern parifh, it has advanced fur- 



prizingly, and contains more fugar-works than fome of three times 



the extent; which is a fure proof of the fitnefs of the foil for this 



cultivation. There are few other in the ifland that, in the fame 



time (little more than thirty years), can boaft of having iiicreafed 



their ftock in the proportion of four to one ; which is actually the 



fadl in refpe£l to Hanover; fo that it bids fair to vie with thofe 



efleemed the richeft in Jamaica, 



SECT. IV. 

 St. J A M E S. 



THIS parKh is bounded on the Eaft by Trelawny ; Weft, by 

 Hanover; North, by thefea; South, by St. Elizabeth. The prin- 

 cipal rivers are Great River, on the Weftern boundary ; Martha- 

 brae, on the Eaftern ; and Montego, which falls into the bay of 

 that name. Great River rifes in the furthefl Southern extremity 

 of the parifli, meandring a courfe of" about thirty miles, and, col- 

 ledting fome other dreams in its way, grows pretty large where 

 it difembogues into the fea at the Weft angle of the bay, and about 

 five miles from the town of Montego. This river is the natural 

 boundary between tliis pajiOi and Hanover; but, although it is 

 pretty wide at its mouth, and penetrates fo confiderable a way into 

 the country, it is at prefent not navigable above three or four miles, 

 and that only for boats and canoes. At the mouth it is crofted by 

 a ferry. 



The Montego River falls into the Bay about three quarters ("f a 

 mile "Weft from the town. The coaft of this parifli has no -lead- 

 land of any note, nor any harbour, except Montego ; but t^'iis is 

 very fufficient. The extent of the parifli from North ^^ South 



being' 



