BOOK II. CHAP. XIII. 



Head-qiiarterJ, St. Jago de la Vega, 



3» 



Marihabrae, 



Total, I0J5 



The additional expence to the illand for their maintenance would 

 (by the bed calculation I can make) not exceed the prefent annual 

 fupply more than 7000/., even allowing one third of men and 

 officers to be married, and to have one child each at an averacre;. 

 which is certainly a very large reckoning ; fo that the ifland, if it 

 be thought ncceflary, is capable of fiipporting fuch an augmen- 

 tation; much more fo (it may be imagined) at tliis time than fome 

 years ago, when the aflembly petitioned for a conftant eftablini- 

 ment of two thoufand men, which would have brought upon them 

 an additional charge, of at ieaft 18,000/. ^^r annum.' 



In regard to the ftate of health of the foldiers here, the following- 

 table will convey fome idea of it. I have already noticed feveraL 

 caufes of their ill health in particular cantonments, which may 

 admit of fome fit regulations for their remedy. The complementv' 

 of the two regiments, landed here in June, 1764, and lately re- 

 lieved, confifted, as I am informed (at four hundred and fifty each 

 reduced eftablilhment), of nine hundred effeiSlives ; and it is proper 



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