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The' country hereabouts, for a few miles, is well cultivated; 

 but, feme miles further to the Eaftward, it ftill wears a favage 

 afpeft, though by no means unfufceptible of great improvements, 

 and valuable plantations. In the Eafternmon: part is a fucceHion of 

 fine pimento walks, which continue, with little interruption, be- 

 yond Rio Bueno, the boundary between Trelawny and St. Anne, 

 and through a confiderable extent of the laft-mentioncd parifli. 

 The beauty of thefe fpicy groves, which are likewife interfperfed 

 with the orange, limon, ftar-apple, avogato-pear, wiW cinnamon, 

 and other favourite trees, among which feme impetuous river rolls 

 its foaming flood, or babbling rivulet, gently trails along in glitter- 

 ing meanders, furnilhes a fubjed worthy fome darling of the Mufes. 

 Even paradife itfelf, defcribed by the pen of Milton, exhibits but 

 a faint reprefentationof them, when he fays, 



" Whofe rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. 



*' Others, whofe fruit, burnifli'd with golden rind, 



" Hung amiable — Hefperian fibles true. — 



*' If true, here only ; and of delicious tafte. 



*' Betwixt them lawns or level downs, and flocks 



*• Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd; 



** Or palmy hillock. Or the flow'ry lap 



** Of fome irriguous valley fpread her flore, 



*' Flow'rs of all hue, and without thorn the rofe. 



*' Another fide, umbrageous grots and caves 



" Of cool recefs. Mean while, the raurm'ring waters h\l 



*' T>own yon flope hill, difpers'd, or in a lake 



« That to the fringed bank, with myrtle crown' d, 



" Her cryflal mirror holds, unite their flreams. 



" The birds their choir apply. Airs, vernal airs, 



*' Breathing the fmell of field and grove, attune 



" The trembling leaves. While univerfal Pan, 



<' Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, 



*' Led on th' eternal fpring." 

 The parifh extends about fifteen miles in depth, and is fettled, 

 but imperfe6lly, to the diftance of fix miles only from the fea. A 

 fpace remains behind of eighty thoufand acres, and upwards, un- 

 inhabited J and concerning which we know nothing more at pre- 

 j fent. 



