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14. After having refted us about two or three 

 times from the Woodfide where we quitted our 

 horfes, we at laft with fatigue enough arrived at 

 the top. Many clouds were at leall half a mile 

 beneath our feet then, and as foon as they blew 

 away, was opened to us a lovely view of the 

 lower Woods, Plantations, Houfes, and Gardens ^ 

 befides an unbounded Profped: of the Atlantick 

 Ocean, and the EngliJJj Ifland of St. Bartholomew 

 at a great diftance. The top was a fmall Plain 

 not three hundred yards wide, that befides long 

 deadifh coloured Grafs, produced nothing at all 

 but here and there a diminutive Bufh, whofe 

 Boughs we found upon trial to be wondrous 

 brittle and inclining to Rottennefs, and having its 

 Leaves of a dull and faded green -, all of which 

 was no doubt occafioned by the Inclemency of 

 Air, and Coldnefs (and of courfe Badnefs) of Soil 

 in that upper Region. Upon the other fide of 

 this top ( which we could not for a reafon given 

 in Paragraph 17. come at in our journey up that 

 fide of the Mountain) may be diftindly feen in a 

 clear day the Illands of Nevis, Montferraty Eujia^ 

 chia, and Saba, which had almoft made me con- 

 ceit myfelf feated upon that fuppofed Hill oi Ede?i 

 whereon Adafji had a vifionary view of the whole 

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