LETTER I. 3 



Baiket he dips fo often in the Water, as till the 

 Sand being walhed clean away leaves, the Cockles 

 behind : And it is worth our obfervation, That 

 this fort of Cockle is not to be found, as far as I 

 could hear of, at any other of the Leeward Cha-^ 

 ribee Iflands ; nay, that they have been carried 

 down to Saint ChriJIophers^ but would not pro- 

 pagate there, though the furtheft part of that 

 Ifland is no more than thirty Miles off, and the 

 neareft end within four or five Miles of Nevis, 

 Antigua has an incomparable kind of Sea Fifli 

 (whofe name I do not remember) that is peculiar 

 to its felf ; for it is not found at any other of our 

 Iflands. We have a good Spring and fliort Stream 

 in our white Ground at Nevis ^ which yield us 

 Mud Fifhes, that are reckoned the richeft Fifh 

 we have : But I always thought the Cavally (a 

 Sea Fifh) the fineft eating of any; it is a deep 

 bodied Fifh, weighs four or five pounds, and 

 taftes not unhke an Englifh Maccarel -, it is a 

 very firm Fifh. 



3. Nevis produces a Tree called Dog- Wood; 

 and when feven or eight Gentlemen have an in- 

 clination to divert themfelves with fifliing (or 

 more properly fpeaking with Fifh-hunting,) they 

 fend each of them a Negro Slave to the Woods, 

 in order to fetch fome of the Bark which grows 

 upon its Roots: this Bark is next morning pound- 

 ed very fmall with Stones, put into old Sacks, 



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