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no other Inhabitants befides a few Goats. The 

 Ifland St, Bartholomew^ is fettled by us Engliflo^ 

 but is not confiderable, except for Lignum Vitse 

 and Iron Wood. The Dutch Ifland of Eufiachia^ 

 being wondrous regularly marked out into Sugar 

 Cane Fields, looked delightfully as I failed along 

 by it in 171 8 : But the Small Pox being very 

 rife there then, and fome of our Company hav- 

 ing never been vifited with that Sicknefs, which 

 is always reckoned to be vaftly dangerous to 

 Life in fo hot a Clime, we durft not venture to 

 go on fliore, to my fmgular regret. Saha is ano- 

 ther Dutch Ifland but a little way from it : It is 

 a monftroufly great, fteep, and high Rock, 

 iprinkled over with a thin Coat of Earth on the 

 top, and inhabited by fifty or fixty Families : No 

 more than one Perfon at a time can climb up to 

 it, and that with difficulty enough, as well as 

 but at one place, fo that it is abfolutely impreg- 

 nable to all Enemies. Curracm too, is a Dutch 

 Ifland of good note for Trade, and well fortified; 

 its fituation is about two day's fail to the Leeward 

 o^Nevis^ but I was never at it. The Ifland of 

 Nevis is of a round figure ; and St. Chrijiopher's 

 is not unlike Ital)\ i. e. its Shape is much in the 

 form of a Man's Leg. 



9. I forgot to acquaint you, That in a bright 

 and clear Day, we can from Nevis very diftind:- 



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