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APPENDIX lo^be SECOND VOLUME. 



"YAMAICA is divided, p. i.] My opinion in regard to the Indian 

 *^ origin of the name of this ifland, as hinted in the former 

 volume, p. 353, is ftrengthenedby the account we have from Peter 

 Martyr, in his Decades ; who fi.ys, that it was called Jamaica by 

 the Indian inhabitants when the Spaniards firft difcovered it. 



Indian natives, who fell viclitns to iht barbarity of their Spanifii con- 

 querors, p. 153-] Peter Martyr meiitio\is, that it was exceedingly 

 populous ; and the Indian natives far more lively, acute, and in- 

 genious, than any the Spaniards had met with in the other iflands. 



Known by the name of Curtln's fpring, p, 138.] This water, I 

 am informed, has been examined, with ftili greater accuracy, by 

 Dr. Turner ; but I have not been fortunate enough to meet with 

 his ingenious remarks upon it. 



P. 207. To the account of Weftmoreland parifti I am enabled to 

 add the following particulars : 



Its metropolis was formerly Queen's Town (now Crofs-Path), 

 which contained a church and many inhabitants. But, in the year 

 1729, fhipping began to refbrt to the harbour of Savannah la Mar ; 

 and, in the following year, the parochial meetings were removed 

 thither, and houfes began to be built. Thefe changes brought on 

 a fpeedy declenfion of the old town. The ftrudure of the fort was 

 firfl: begun in 1733; and it was judicioufly fituated for commanding 

 the feveral channels leading into the harbour ; but the town, 

 inftead of the low, fwampy foil on which it now ftands, might 

 have been placed, with far greater advantage, about a mile more 

 to the Eaftward, on an elevated, dry fpot, through which a rill 

 of good water conftantly runs. This fcite would likewife have 

 been more commodious for carrying on mercantile bufinefs ; not 

 only becaufe there is a greater depth of water near the fliore, but 

 that fmall veflels may pafs to and fro with any wind. The inha- 

 bitants of Savannah la Mar lie under the further inconvenience of 

 being obliged to fetch their water, for domeftic ufes, from a great 



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