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LETTER II. 



SIR, 



I Well remember our Difcourfe about my Voy- 

 age to St« Chrijiopher^s^ and Journey to Chi^ 

 finne^ Capijierre^ and up the great Mountain; 

 which (as it feems to fuit your tafte) I now 

 take the freedom to remind you of, by way of 

 Letter. 



I. In the cheerful month oi May^ which ge- 

 lierally gives new Life and Vigour to the whole 

 Creation ; I fet forward about ten a Clock in the 

 IVIorning from Charles Town at Nevis^ and with 

 an eafy, gentle Breeze of Wind arrived at th^ 

 Port of Baffe T*erre in the Ifland of St. Chrlftophc7\ 

 before dinner ; being all the way agreably enter- 

 tained, with a moft beautiful Profpedt of both 

 the Iflands, as well as the Dutch Ifles of Etijia-^ 

 fhia and Saba, together with a Sky, that was 

 not top much clouded, and which of courle in fa 

 warm a Clime was variegated into fuch different 

 Shapes and Colours, that my fruitful imagination 

 could difcover in them, Mountains and Forefls, 

 /hady Groves and fertile Plains, Rivers of Ice 

 and Hillocks of Snow, Lakes and Promontories, 

 with Lyons, Bears, Crocodiles, Buffaloes, and 

 <Dthcr llrange Animals ; all of which rtruck my 



Fancy 



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