3q6 L E T T E R XI. 



He alfo told me, that they eat with fingular 

 pleafure a foiall Land-Crab, the Shell of whofe 

 Body is not broader than a Crown Piece, and 

 which is entirely negledled at Nevis, becaufe we 

 have great plenty of the larger fort. At Nevis. 

 we have fome diminutive Soal-Fiflies which talle 

 exadlly like Englijh ones. The be ft profpe6l of 

 Antigua, is from a Hill in the middle almoft 

 of the Country. 



7. In my return back homewards to Nevis^ 

 we called in at Montferrat, where too the Gen- 

 tlemen delight to fignalize themfelves in Hof- 

 pitality, and all A(!ls of Kindnefs and Good Na- 

 ture. The Country is mountainous; and one 

 third of the People Papifts, who are notwith- 

 ftanding allowed to bear xArms, ferve upon Juries, 

 and to do their Country's fervice in all other re- 

 fpeds the fame with the Proteftants. You can- 

 not in reafon expedt a fuller account of thefe two 

 Ifles, my flay at them being fo fliort as ten or 

 twelve days at the firft, and at the latter no 

 more than two. Montferrat on the Leeward or 

 Weftern Side, muft needs afford a fair Prolpecl 

 after a plentiful Shower of Rain, it being much 

 hio;her Land than Antinia, 



8. Between Montferrat and Nevis, we paffed 

 by a fmall rocky Lie named Rodondo^ which has 



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