3i6 JAMAICA. 



commanded a party of the forty-ninth regiment, agalnft the 

 Maron Negroes, he provided his men with flannel jackets hned 

 with hiien ; this was their only covering overthe fliirt. In the day- 

 time, they wore the linen next their bodies, and at night the 

 woollen : in this drefs, they were cool by day, fufficiently warm at 

 nioht, and went through an aftonifliing courfe of fatigue, without 

 injury to their healths ; not one of the party having fiillen fick 

 during tlie whole time of their being on that fervice. 



The !av>>s of the ifland contain very few particulars relative to 

 the regular troops. The hiring, conceahng, employing, entertain- 

 ing, or carrying off any foldler belonging to any regiment quartered 

 here, or feaman belonging to any of his majefty's Ihips on this Na- 

 tion, without a difcharge from their commanding officer, llibjeds 

 the offender, upon conviftion, to the penalty of 50 /.; and the perfon 

 io hired, &c. is admitted an evidence, and entitled to one half the 

 £ne for informing. 



A foldier, maimed or wounded in any publick fervice, is to be 

 cured and maintained at the publick charge [c], 



A lot of land at Bath is referved for ereding an infirmary for 

 fick foldiers, labouring under complaints remediable by the waters; 

 and another lot for a burial-ground. 



Contiguous to all the old country barracks, one hundred acres are 

 allotted for the ufe of the foldiers, v;ho may be pofled in them ; but 

 •iis they have received no garrifons fince the pacification with the 

 Marons, the mod part of thefe lands have been given up to the 

 gentlemen poflelTed of plantations near them, on condition of keep- 

 ing the buildings in conftant good repair. 



I Hiall clofe this account of the white inhabitants, by obferving 

 en the very capital errors which feem to have been committed by 

 different writers in refpedt of their number; for fome have not 

 Icrupled to aflert that, in 1720, the ifland contained 60,000 Whites; 

 and that, in 1740, the number was but little reduced. It is impoffible 

 to reconcile thefe accounts with the reprefentation made by the 

 board of trade to the houfe of lords in 1734, when 7,644 was 

 itated as the whole number of Whites at that time upon the ifland. 

 I have fuppofed the prefent number (in the preceding parts of this 



[r] idSi. 



work) 



