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others wherever fuch a communication is wanting, appears to be 

 the firft great leading meafure towards a morecompleat fettling and 

 peopling of this ifland ; fo I can with pleafure bear teftimony to the 

 laudable fpirit which at prefent actuates the gentlemen refident 

 there, who, in a late feflion of aifembly, beftowed no lefs than 

 5,000/., by public grant, towards forming or compleating twenty 

 very necefl'ary roads in the following parishes ; a munificence 

 which, faithfully applied, will redound not more to the credit of 

 their good fenfe, than to the general benefit of the ifland. 



Weftmoreland, from Hamberfly's Penn, to Lenox Plantation. 



Ditto, from Glafgow Eftate, to Lucea in Hanover. 



Ditto, from Dean's Valley, to Great River in St. James. 



Hanover, from Lucea along the mountains, to Mofquito Cove. 



St. James, from Great River, through Seven-Rivers, to Mout- 

 peller. 



Ditto, from Great River, through Montpelier, to the Bogue 



Eftate. 



St. Elizabeth, from Moroe's Craal, to Chefterfield. 



St. Anne, from Ocho Rios Bay, to Dun's River. 



Ditto, from Dry Harbour, to the Cave in Clarendon. 



St. Thomas in the Vale, to St. Mary. 



Ditto, to St. Anne. 



Ditto, over Monte Diablo. 



St. Mary, from Guy's Hill, through Bagnal's, to Rio Nuevo-Bay. 



St. George, from Kingfton, through Cold Spring, to Buff-Bay. 



St. David, from the head of Yallah's River, to Roger's Cornerj 

 leading to the Barquadier at Yallah's Bay. 



Ditto, and Port Royal, from the conflux of the Hope aiKl Hoghole 

 Rivers, to Yallah's River, near its jun6tion with Green-River. 



St. Aadrew, from Moore's Eftate, to Wagwater River. 



St. Thomas in the Eaft, from Port Morant Harbour, to the Bath. 



Portland, from Bath, over Break-heart Hill, to Titchfield. 



Ditto, from Titchfield, to Prieftman's River, being part of tlie 

 high road from Rio Grande. 



hi ia.Oi, the great improvements, made in many parts of the ifland 

 of late years, are principally to be aicribed to the meliorated ftate 

 of the roads J to the more general ufe of water-mills; to an im.- 



proved. 



