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*^ yet I was taken there, in fo great Showers, that I 

 " was wet unto the fkin. There is here, a hot 

 " Spring affording a conftantly running Rivulet 

 *' of Water, made ufe of for all purpofes as com- 

 *^ mon Water.'* Now as that learned Gentleman 

 flayed no longer than two days at Nevis ^ he could 

 give but a very imperfeA account of it, and of 

 courfe I think myfelf obliged to amend it, viz. 

 The Mountain I own to be about four miles from 

 the top to the Bay at Charks Town^ (and as men- 

 tioned in Paragraph 42 of my fecond Letter, 

 near a mile and a half in perpendicular height ,) 

 But its defcent is very fteep from the top half 

 way down towards Charles Town, and afterwards 

 indeed it may be termed an eafy defcent. We have 

 like wife a Hill called Saddle- Hilly becaufe it ap- 

 pears in the form of a Saddle at the top ; we reck- 

 on it no more than a Hill, but I do affure you 

 that it is higher than the great Mountain, called 

 Skiddaw in Cumberland, The Bath is a fmall Ri- 

 ver, and its Water may very well be drank when 

 cold, for it has not a very fulphurous Tafte j 

 There is another River in Gingerland called. New 

 River y and there is a third River near New-Cajlky 

 jn the Windward Parifli, that is well flocked with 

 the fineft fat Mullets and other good Fi(h. There 

 is befides, a Gully (or Gut) in St. "Thomas's Parifli, 

 named the Dungeon y becaufe its rocky fides are 

 high and perpendicular, which always affords ex- 

 cellent 



