BOOK II. CHAP. IX. 231 



St. Dorothy, ■ -70 



St. James, — - c^ 



St. Thomas hi the Vale, 1. . ■ 25 



St. Anne, - 14: 



St. David, ■' — — J 



St. Thomas hi the Eaft, — 4 



Portland, i 



Total. 1498^ 

 The number of thefe carriages is not in exa£l proportion to the 

 value of property ; for it is to be confidered, that, in regard to the 

 richer parifhes, fome of the proprietors refide more commonly in 

 town ; fome, on account of bad or hilly roads, keep no carriage in 

 the country ; but many more are abfent from the ifland, and keep 

 theirs in Great-Britain. They are by no means to be regarded as 

 articles of luxury in Jamaica: they are neceflary to the inhabi- 

 tants for their conveniency in point of health, and in traveling 

 from place to place ; but, confidering their hafty decay in this cli- 

 mate, and the coftlinefs o-f their workmanfhip, they form no con- 

 temptible article in the lift of Britifh manufaflures which this 

 ifland confumes; and, as the roads become more and more im- 

 proved, the number of them will doubtlefs increale. 



The general poft-office for the ifland is kept in the town of 

 Kingfton. This place is in the appointment of the poil-malier ge- 

 neral of Great-Britain, and fuppoled worth about 1000/. (lerliiig 

 per antmm. With refpedl, to any convenience which the inhabi- 

 tants at prefent derive from it, much cannot be faid ; nor can, in- 

 deed, the deputy well afford to make it more ufeful to them, until 

 the roads fliall be further improved, and the country better peopled. 

 The feveral mails are difpatched from Kingfton but once a week ; 

 and, if a merchant there fends a letter by this conveyance to his 

 correfpondent at Savannah la Mar, he muft wait twelve days before 

 he can receive an anfwer. The prefent deputy, however, has had 

 the credit of regulating the inland poft upon a better plan thaa any 

 of his predeceflors^ 



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