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diflance acrofs the bay ; except immediately after the rainy feafons, 

 when, by the flooding of feme gullies, they gain a temporary fup- 

 ply in their neighbourhood. The fum of thirteen hundred pounds 

 has been lately expended on repairs to the fort, wliich the pa- 

 rifliiouers intend to furnifh with cannon. 



The town contains near one hundred houfes: Beckford-town con- 

 fifts of about thirty ; and the remai.-ider of the favannah has about 

 as many more. The number of v.-ffels loaded here, at an average of 

 the laft four years, amounts to about eighty per annum (not in- 

 cluding coafters, or droguers),- and their burthen has been computed 

 at eleven thoufand five hundred and eiglity-five tons; which calcu- 

 lation allows about one hundred and forty-five tons to each veflel. 

 Hence Ibme opinion may be formed of the confequence and value of 

 the trade carried on at this port. And, that an efllmate may like- 

 wife be made of the unproved flate of the plantations in this parifh, 

 the following mav fuffice. 



Anno. Negroes. Hhds. of Sugar. Number of Sugar Eftates. 

 1770, 17237 7915 72 • 



which the reader may compare with the ftate I have before given 

 of it for the yf ar 1768. 



Manning's free-fchool maintains only fix or feven boys. This 

 is attributed toTome inattention in the truftees; for it is afferted, 

 that the fund is improveable, and very capable, if judlcioufly ma- 

 naged, of fupporting many more. I know not what truth there 

 may be in this charge ; but, if it is fairly adduced againft the 

 truftees, there is evidently fome defeft in the law which was palled 

 for regulating, this foundation. 



Mineral Waters. 



The chalybeate fpring at Ricketts Savannah has been already 

 found of fin2:ular benefit in obftrudions, and other dllbrders accom- 

 panying a lax fibre. It appears to contain volatile- vitriolic-acid, 

 felenitic-earth, and a portion of fixible air. This fpring, if it was 

 properly attended to, and guarded from the accefs of rain and other 

 mixtures, might prove highly ferviceable to the inhabitants. 

 There is alfo a hot-lpring lately difcovered in the mountains lying 

 between this parifh and Hanover ; in allprobablhty it is fulphureous, 

 and h.as affinity in its principles and operation to the hot bath of 



St. Thomas 



